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Article

29 Apr 2015

Author:
Associated Press

USA: Bumble Bee Foods charged after worker dies in an industrial oven

"Tuna company in hot water after worker is cooked alive in 6 tons of fish", 28 Apr 2015

Bumble Bee Foods [part of Lion Capital] and two managers were charged by Los Angeles prosecutors...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...The company, its plant operations director Angel Rodriguez and former safety manager Saul Florez were each charged with three counts of violating Occupational Safety & Health Administration rules that caused a death.