Worker Dies After Being Cooked In Tuna Plant Oven

CBS Local L.A. ^ | 10-13-12 | Staff

[Red Badger]

SANTA FE SPRINGS (AP) — Authorities say a 62-year-old employee was cooked to death at a Southern California seafood plant for tuna maker Bumble Bee Foods

The Whittier Daily News reports Jose Melena was found Thursday shortly before 7 a.m. at the plant in Santa Fe Springs. California Division of Occupational Safety and Health spokeswoman Erika Monterroza says t’s unclear how the man ended up inside a cooking device called a “steamer machine.”

The state department has launched an investigation into the accident.

In a written statement, Bumble Bee Foods spokesman Pat Menke expressed condolences to Melena’s family and says operations at the canning facility will be suspended at the plant until Monday.

[griswold3]

No one know how he ending up in the machine?
Perhaps, Instead of sleeping with the fishes, he’s steam bathing with the fishes? 62 yo worker knew too much.

[al baby]

So thats what stunk up the 5 freeway

[cotton1706]

This post was giving me a haddock. But I finished reading it just for the halibut!

[Red Badger]

Don’t flounder around too much.........

[billorites]

[FishinTX]

He said he was going to get canned earlier in the week.

[Red Badger]

Picky-picky.....

[berdie]

Bumble Bee isn’t very good salmon.

Now I guess I know why.

[Revolting cat!]

Witnesses say that Jose became distracted while singing a hit tuna.

[JediJones]

Bumble Bee is headquartered in San Diego and is owned by Lion Capital LLP, a British private equity firm.

Good thing it wasn't owned by Bain Capital.

[Revolting cat!]

For his sake, I hope he was cooking in oil. Tuna in oil is certainly better tasting than tuna in water.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I think this is why so many people insist on voting “early” these days. You never know.

[Dead Corpse]

That’s what he gets for driving a Stingray to work. It. He’d blown a seal in it, but everyone figured it was a lifestyle choice. His friends all called him Marlin and he was one heck of a bass player.

/Kip Addotta

[Gamecock]

Their tuna tastes like an old sponge.

[GOP_Party_Animal]

lol!

[TChad]

Soylent of the Sea

[Autonomous User]

“Sorry, Charlie. StarKist wants tuna that tastes good, not tuna with good taste.”

[xrmusn]

Reminds me of a ‘friend’ of mine that died in an industrial accident.
He worked at a brewery and fell into a vat of beer and drowned.

Witnesses say he climbed out five times to go to the head as he didn’t want to ‘whizz’ in the beer.

[Red Badger]

You’ve eaten old sponges?....

[Red Badger]

Fewer calories........