Bad way to go

[kelroy55]

LOS ANGELES -- 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.

The body was severely burned, reports CBS Los Angeles. The oven is used to sterilize cans of tuna, the station says.

[Urbanized]

Horrible

[catch22]

Wow. That's awful.

[RadicalModerate]

This is exactly why a protocol called "Lock Out--Tag Out" was invented.

[kevinpate]

Not sure I can grasp why it would take 2.5 years to decide to bring the safety violation charges. But yeah, not how a shift should end for anyone.

[Mel]

I finally got used to the taste of Dolphin in my Tuna and now this. Poor guy was pretty steamed about it.

[kelroy55]

I finally got used to the taste of Dolphin in my Tuna and now this. Poor guy was pretty steamed about it.

At least his name wasn't Charlie.

[Mel]

Always hurts to be canned from your job.

[Tritone]

I like a good pun as much as the next guy does but these are not in good taste. Wait! That was not intentional, really.

[RadicalModerate]

It looks like two managers at Bumble Bee Foods are being charged with something in relation to this incident. I wonder if the trial (or hearing or whatever) will reveal the fact that the maintenance guy was loaded with mercury because his next task--after doing whatever he was doing in the pressure cooker--was to recharge all the thermometers in the plant.