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Employer claiming all doors are fire exits and cannot be used. Apart from the door in the break room.

Looking for advice. I work night shift in a metal shop. About 7 people in a building thats a full city block wide and two blocks long. point is, it's huge. When it's warm outside all the doors get opened. We're not in the greatest neighborhood so some of the doors have metal gates that bolt shut. You need a wrench to escape through those doors. They're also claiming our massive overhead doors are emergency exits as well. They're left open when its warm (almost all doors are) and our entire crew could all walk out side by side arms out without touching. The other overhead door is completely blocked with a steel rack. No room behind it, definitely no way to move it in an emergency. My question is, is this legal? None of these doors are alarmed or marked as emergency exits. They did this (for whatever reason)…


Looking for advice. I work night shift in a metal shop. About 7 people in a building thats a full city block wide and two blocks long. point is, it's huge. When it's warm outside all the doors get opened. We're not in the greatest neighborhood so some of the doors have metal gates that bolt shut. You need a wrench to escape through those doors. They're also claiming our massive overhead doors are emergency exits as well. They're left open when its warm (almost all doors are) and our entire crew could all walk out side by side arms out without touching. The other overhead door is completely blocked with a steel rack. No room behind it, definitely no way to move it in an emergency. My question is, is this legal? None of these doors are alarmed or marked as emergency exits. They did this (for whatever reason) and now night shift has to spend more than half of our break time walking across the plant to break room, just to walk the opposite direction along the outside of the building to get to our cars. (it's a metal shop full of old guys, they all need their cigarettes lol) it's absolutely ridiculous and I'm wondering if there's anything I can do to get my damn 50ft wide door back or make it backfire on incompetent management.

Edit: This is Indiana btw. A good ol “right to work” state.

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