Worker Dies After Being Cooked In Tuna Plant Oven

AP) ^ | October 12, 2012 6:53 PM

[BenLurkin]

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 it’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

[afraidfortherepublic]

Cross that brand off my shopping list!

[C. Edmund Wright]

This will end up on one of those “CSI” or “Law and Order” episodes...ripped from the headlines. Yikes.

[ConservativeStatement]

I can now go to the “12 items or less” aisle as one item is scratched from the shopping list.

[momtothree]

I was going to make tuna casserole for dinner tonight. Looks like meatloaf in now on the menu.

[EggsAckley]

I have always despised Bumble Bee tuna. No matter how it’s “prepared” or packed. Yuck.

Maybe now I know why......

[dforest]

I guess I will stay away from Bumble He tuna. Yuck

[Zhang Fei]

Waiter, there’s a man in my tuna salad.

[hout8475]

There already was an incident like this on “1000 Ways To Die”.

[njslim]

Sorry Charlie.....

Think stick to Star Quist

[Slump Tester]

I've always despised ALL tuna!

When I was younger, I had a phone # ending in 2638. I used to tell people to remember it by Bill never eats tuna.

[C. Edmund Wright]

...and my daughter tells me there was a “Bones” episode like that too....

[bigheadfred]

You can tuna piano, but you can't tuna person. But they make excellent crackers.

[Smokin' Joe]

But, BUT it’s dolphin safe! (Prayers up for the family)

[umgud]

The state department has launched an investigation into the accident

A US Ambasador is killed in Lybia and the state department is investigating an occupational death.

Something smells fishy here.

[Las Vegas Ron]

[IMR 4350]

Bumble Bee got you covered on the meat loaf too.

[a fool in paradise]

If I can’t have dolphin in my tuna fish, then I certainly don’t want stray employees or bumble bees in it.

[prisoner6]

It was already on a story line through a season of the NBC soap Passions a few years ago.

[Dr. Ursus]

I had a can of tuna last nite with fine Chanti and some fava
beans!