Bumble Bee charged in gruesome worker oven death

[Eugene]

Source: CNNMoney

Bumble Bee charged in gruesome worker oven death

By Chris Isidore @CNNMoney

Bumble Bee Foods and two of its employees face felony criminal charges related to the 2012 death of an employee in a pressure cooker at a Los Angeles-area plant.

The charges were brought by the Los Angeles County District Attorney, who alleges the company, the director of plant operations and its former safety manager "willfully violating worker safety rules."

According to the DA's statement Jose Melena, 62, a six-year employee of the Santa Fe Springs, Calif., plant, entered a 35-foot long cylindrical oven in October 2012 as part of his job. The oven is used to sterilize cans of tuna.

Coworkers were unaware that he was in the oven when they loaded carts holding six tons of tuna into the oven, closed the door, and turned on the super-heated pressurized steam cooker. During the two-hour heat sterilization process, the oven's internal temperature rose to about 270 degrees. Melena's severely burned remains were discovered by a coworker,

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CNNMoney (New York) April 28, 2015: 9:54 AM ET

Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/28/news/companies/bumble-bee-death-criminal-charges/

[Sherman A1]

1. Sad

I hope this is investigated throughly and after due process appropriate actions are taken.

[Omaha Steve]

2. It took them long enough