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Jeßus[_21_]

On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 20:46:00 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

>On Monday, April 27, 2015 at 8:35:34 PM UTC-7, Travis McGee wrote:
>> Bumble Bee Foods, 2 others charged after employee died in pressure cooker
>>
>> An employee burned to death inside an industrial pressure cooker at the
>> Bumble Bee Foods plant in Santa Fe Springs in 2012.
>> By Matt Hamilton contact the reporter
>>
>> Bumble Bee Foods and two of the tuna company's employees were charged
>> Monday with willfully ignoring safety rules, leading to a plant worker
>> burning to death inside an industrial pressure cooker in 2012,
>> prosecutors said.
>>
>> The San Diego-based company, former safety manager Saul Florez, and
>> Angel Rodriguez, the director of plant operations, were each charged
>> with three felony counts of committing an occupational safety and health
>> violation that caused a death, according to the Los Angeles County
>> district attorney's office.
>>
>> On Oct. 11, 2012, Jose Melena, 62, entered a 35-foot oven at the
>> company's Santa Fe Springs plant to make a repair inside the machine,
>> which is used to sterilize thousands of cans of tuna at a time.
>>
>> Unaware that Melena was inside the oven, other plant workers loaded
>> several carts that altogether held about 12,000 pounds of tuna, shut the
>> door and turned on the oven, prosecutors said.
>>
>> Temperatures peaked at around 270 degrees, and Melena cooked to death,
>> prosecutors said. His charred remains were found by another plant worker.
>>
>> In a statement, the company said it disagrees with and is "disappointed
>> by the charges" filed by Los Angeles prosecutors. The company described
>> Melena's death as a "tragic accident" and noted that an investigation by
>> the California Division of Occupational Safety & Health "found no
>> willful violations related to the accident.
>>
>
>There should have been one key to turn the heat on to that pressure
>cooker, and it should have been in the repair guy's pocket (Lock-out).
>A metal sign hung on the switch should have said: REPAIRMAN WORKING
>INSIDE. Further, there should be a last minute check for repair personnel
>before turning on the juice.
>
>But it occurs to me the repair guy committed suicide, to get his family
>the insurance money.

This group still manages to astound me.