Not the way I would want to die

[rbeau30]

Modern Marvels - Bumble Bee Factory
https://youtu.be/B02S3GOILW4

240 - 250 degrees for 2 hours the pressure cookers cook the 12K sealed cans.

They roll baskets of these cans into the tunnel.

You would have thought the guy would have started making a racket when they started rolling the baskets of cans in there.

[Gman]

Yeah, makes me wonder if the guy died of a heart attack or something while he was inside.

[rbeau30]

Yeah, possibly he was incapacitated somehow. The story did say that the company failed to follow the confined space rules.

When let's say a pressure cooker only holds 10 baskets. When only 9 baskets fit in the tunnel, you would think somebody would investigate.
Still, you would think a safety plan would have been put into place where if anyone goes in there, you have a buddy (confined space) and the machine locked and tagged that it is under maintenance.

Awful. That is literally like being in a brazing bull.

[Bailey Guns]

That's not how I imagined the process worked. I don't see how someone, even the victim himself, could be caught inside if he wasn't somehow incapacitated already. Weird.

[rbeau30]

Well, I guess the Tuna will start flowing on Monday.http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/...ath/#respondIt was the machines pictured in the videos posted above where the baskets are put in the pressure cooker. Takes 30 minutes to load one though... not like it is a fast thing. Wierd that they already ruled out foul play.

[Gman]

Can't imagine what the cleanup and autopsy would have been like.

...well I can actually, and the visual in my mind is pretty ugly.

Would cooking him conceal the evidence of foul play?

[Ronin13]

Looks like this guy sleeps with the fishes...

Too soon?

[Gman]

Bumble Bee to Pay $6 Million Over Employee Cooked in Tuna Oven

Bumble Bee Foods will pay $6 million in the 2012 death of an employee who was cooked in an industrial oven with tons of tuna — the biggest settlement ever in a California for workplace safety violations involving a single victim, prosecutors said Wednesday.


The state report, which was filed with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, said the manned oven system was inherently dangerous, finding that the chain that pulls carts of tuna into the ovens would sometimes get snagged, requiring operators to enter the ovens to pull the carts through.
Related: Read the Full California Report (PDF)

Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey said Bumble Bee will pay $3 million to replace all of its outdated tuna ovens with automated ovens and will never require workers to set foot inside the super-heated, pressurized steam cookers.

The company will also pay $1.5 million in restitution to Melena's family, and it will pay the district attorney's Environmental Enforcement Fund $750,000 for workplace safety programs and $750,000 in fines, penalties and court costs.

In addition, Saul Florez, Bumble Bee's former safety manager, pleaded guilty to a felony count of willfully violating lockout rules and indirectly causing Melena's death. He was sentenced to three years' probation, ordered to complete 30 days of community labor and assessed $19,000 in fines and penalties, Lacey said.

And another co-defendant, Angel Rodriguez, Bumble Bee's director of plant operations, will be allowed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor in 18 months if he completes 320 hours of community service, pays $11,400 in fines and takes classes on confined space rules, Lacey said.

Bumble Bee and both men are required to make public statements conceding guilt under the terms of the settlement.

In a statement, Bumble Bee said it hoped the settlement would bring "closure."