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.
After a 2 hour search, the pressure cooker, which had reached a temperature of 270 degrees, was turned off and opened and that's where is body was found. The 2 coworkers, Rodriguez, 63 and Florez, 42,who turned the cooker on, could face up to three years in prison and fines up to $250,000 if convicted of all charges, prosecutors said.
The charges specify that the company and the two men willfully violated rules that require implementing a safety plan, rules for workers entering confined spaces, and a procedure to keep machinery or equipment turned off if someone’s working on it.
The state’s occupational safety agency previously cited the San Diego-based company for failing to properly assess the danger to employees working in large ovens and fined it $74,000.
Bumble Bee Foods faces a maximum fine of $1.5 million but the company has appealed the penalties, stating that it has improved its safety program after the tragedy.
“We remain devastated by the loss of our colleague Jose Melena in the tragic accident,” the company said in a statement. “We disagree with and are disappointed by the charges filed by the Los Angeles district attorney’s office.”
61 comments:
Okpemu! Phewww
Mogbe
Cook ke?? Okija shrine
How will Melane be performing maintenance and a co-worker will proceed with work without a "permit to work"? What sort of story is this? I bet this company has been breaching good coy working ethics years before now. That's the only way this kinda mistake could happen
So unfortunate he died as a result of such carelessness. Rip to him.
Gush! Such painful death...carelessness in the highest order!
Its a horribles mistake tho... I don't think they shud charged them tho
Wow! Such carelessness, hope it wasn't a plan to make humans out of that tuna for consumption of masses.
Hmm. RIP to d dead
Wtf! Unbelievable 😢 so sad. RIP
My Goodness... dis is seriousl. Dey need to rut in jail for doing that
RIP to the dead
Rest in peace to the dead.
Stupid mistake.
My fellow safety officers on LIB. Wrote my IGC exam last week Friday
So sad,RIP to the dead
What a painful death Jose Melena got. May his soul rest in peace
Rip. Cruel world
Haba! Dis is ridiculous
What a mess. RIP to the guy. Hope they will discard that pressure cooker and buy a new one
You're very smart
He died a painful death, RIP
Ode shut up. Work permit for what? Pls read the story well before u come and form I too know for here. Mumu
Haba,what kind of carelessness is this. Safety rules was not applied.
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Jesus! Dt was wrong...Rip to d dead..
The poor man died painfully. So sad. Be at peace Mr Jose.
Hmmm a sad 1
Hmmm... Dia ris Gawd
Rip 2 him
Hahaha. What happened to safety rules? At 270 degrees before they discovered. Chai, the man actually met hell on earth. May his soul rest in peace.
Busy Fingers.
Wow! Job procedures r so important and i agree with d sentencing. The procedures r there to be strictly followed! And if they had followed it, d man would still be alive.
Oh no RIP
Na waoh...
Cook ke?
The unfortunate has happened. I believe the company does not have a good safety culture practice. Otherwise Melena would have done LOTO(Lock Out Tag Out) on the machine before embarking on maintenance. This is the only way the incident would have been prevented.
Factory workers always put themselves at risk
Nawah
Haa...gbese.RIP to im
whatever happens that person is dead! sad
Busy, can't read but from d caption, this is so disheartening. What a cruel and painful fate, no one volunteers to be d endangered specie. God rest his gentle soul. Amen
Carelessness.....what a big shame. RIP
RIP 2 him, dey should had known he was carrying out maintenance dat day
True
Information is very important in maintenace....
. <<100%Nigerian>>
What a f*cked up way to die! In a sane society you even get sued for accidental deaths. Damn, if Nigeria better lots of people go frustrate
When the oven was turned on, the man inside couldn't scream? So unfortunate.
Such a big mistake,RIP tho!
Mogbe!!!!
COOKED?GOD FORBID..IMAGINE A TEMPERATURE DEGREE OF 36-40 NOT TO TALK OF 270 AS STATED...CHAI, D MAN SAW DEATH, I BLIF HE SCREAMD BUT HS VOICE CUDNT B HEARD,..SUCH A PITY..RIP TO HIM.TOMJERRYSWIT
God! Cooked?
Painful death.
Did you read the story?
Seems like you hurriedly post a comment just to get noticed.
Chineke ooo... Them don chop belle full.. 😁😝😝
What a way to die. RIPP
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This is very unfortunate, a very costly mistake
This is very unfortunate, a very costly mistake
I feel the pain of the guy cooked pain...
This is a TERRIBLE way to die!!! So sad!
kai!!! what a terrible way to die.
This two men are heartless what a painful melenz died
Only God knows how many tuna cans exported to us have charred human flesh inside.
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