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LongTermGuy
04-30-2015, 06:31 PM
`....A Hell of `a way to die....Horrible industrial accident `

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`....Bumble Bee Foods and two managers were charged by Los Angeles prosecutors Monday with violating safety regulations in the death of a worker who was cooked in an industrial oven with tons of tuna.

Jose Melena was performing maintenance in a 35-foot-long oven at the company's Santa Fe Springs plant before dawn Oct. 11, 2012, when a co-worker, who mistakenly believed Melena was in the bathroom, filled the pressure cooker with 12,000 pounds of canned tuna and it was turned on.

When a supervisor noticed Melena, 62, was missing, an announcement was made on the intercom and employees searched for him in the facility and parking lot, according to a report by the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health. His body was found two hours later after the pressure cooker, which reached a temperature of 270 degrees, was turned off and opened.....More

​http://abc11.com/news/tuna-company-2-employees-charged-in-death-of-worker-in-oven/685224/

WiccanLiberal
04-30-2015, 08:28 PM
Saw this as well. It amazes me that there was no policy in place to visually check the cooker before adding product or turning it on. It would take very little effort to simply look first.