Bumble Bee Foods agrees to $6M settlement in worker oven death

Bumble Bee Foods agreed to pay $6 million to settle criminal charges Wednesday in the death of a worker who was cooked in an oven with tons of tuna. Jose Melena, 62, died three years ago in a 270-degree oven at the seafood company’s Santa Fe Springs, California, plant after a co-worker mistakenly believed he was in the bathroom and filled a pressure cooker with six tons of canned tuna. “This is the worst circumstances of death I have ever, ever witnessed,” said Deputy District Attorney Hoon Chun,,, Read the rest here 16:45

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.