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(52,305 posts) Sat Oct 13, 2012, 02:57 PM Oct 2012

Report: Bumble Bee tuna plant worker 'cooked in oven [View all]

A worker at a Bumble Bee tuna-canning plant in California died in an industrial accident Thursday after being cooked in an oven, the Contra Costa Times reported Friday.

Jose Melena, 62, "was fatally injured when he was cooked in an oven," a California Occupational Safety and Health spokeswoman told the newspaper. It's unclear how Melena ended up inside the "steamer machine.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-bumble-bee-tuna-worker-dies-cooked-20121013,0,7008588.story

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Report: Bumble Bee tuna plant worker 'cooked in oven [View all] Baitball Blogger Oct 2012 OP

Ugh. Awful. I hope they investigate, and not just assume it's an accident, though. TwilightGardener Oct 2012 #1

I wonder if the guy was cleaning the oven and got locked in. Baitball Blogger Oct 2012 #3

That's the most plausible theory, but it's also possible he fell unconscious in there TwilightGardener Oct 2012 #8

Sometimes workers deliberately defeat those systems Mariana Oct 2012 #11

OSHA is better staffed since Obama became President Teamster Jeff Oct 2012 #5

To Low? Berserker Oct 2012 #6

Sounds about right, actually. TwilightGardener Oct 2012 #7

$7000 is the Max fine Teamster Jeff Oct 2012 #9

Straight out of The Jungle Bucky Oct 2012 #2

What a horrible way to go! Odin2005 Oct 2012 #4

RIP and love live tantric_nun Oct 2012 #10

Not long ago, workers baked alive in U.K. bread factory: jsr Oct 2012 #12