Bumble Bee Foods to Pay $6 Million in Death of Worker Killed in Industrial Oven

KTLA ^ | 12:56pm, August 12, 2015 | Melissa Pamer,

[Thank You Rush]

Thank you... I remember an old episode of JAG where an operator on board a ship or sub was blamed for firing off a missile when he swore he had put a tag on the levers. It turned out that the tag had been knocked off (?) by someone and it was found under a cabinet when a missile had actually been sent on its way. Fiction I know but I believe some stories have authenticity.. And don’t disillusion me, please. I love the reruns at 9 ET each night.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Decades ago, a Supervisor at an Ontario coal-fired electrical plant, at the end of a plant turnaround, decided to look inside the furnace of a boiler. He hasn’t told anyone, he hadn’t LOTOed the opening he went into and he had no radio. The furnace was sealed shut and the operator was about to start firing with NG to warm the boiler. People started to ask about this Supervisor because he was nowhere around. Shortly, it was discovered that he had expressed interest in seeing the interior of the boiler.

Since he was not found, it was decided to open the furnace to ensure he wasn’t inside. He was discovered and rescued. That boiler heats steam to over 700°F and burns a train car load of coal each hour. If he had not been missed, he would never have been found. There would have been nothing but ash. After he got out of the furnace, he was given his walking papers.

[Grams A]

What else is Bumble Bee skipping in their processes?”

Isn’t this the company that Pelosi’s husband has interest in or maybe even owns? I remember some tuna company got a break involving employees some time ago. Can’t remember any of the details but I do remember Pelosi being somehow involved.

[Thumper1960]

Lock out, tag out refers to disabling power to equipment and locking the power panel or disconnect and red tagging it so no one may operate it or “accidentally” energize the panel or equipment. The keys are kept by the crew or person doing the work on the equipment.

[PAR35]

Do these court costs include paying the family's lawyers or does their pay come out of the family's $1.5 million share of the settlement?

This was a criminal prosecution, so the private lawyers shouldn't be involved (but probably were). So any division of the money is between the survivors and their attorneys, and probably shouldn't be dealt with in the context of the criminal plea.

[thackney]

Lock out. Tag out.

BTTT

[thackney]

Hence the need for the Lock as well as the Tag.

[17th Miss Regt]

“And we love Flipper, Flipper, Flipper...”

[Daffynition]

Oh goodness! That’s darling! Classic! ;)

Thanks for the smiles!

[right way right]

On top of locking and tagging the actual equipment, there is often a collective point where every employee working who is any where near the project has a pad lock with their name attached to it locked to a gathering point. (Often just a board with holes to attach locks)
Each employee is responsible for their own lock and key.
If a lock with a tag is present on that collection point it is always presumed that that individual is still in the danger area and absolutely nothing is to operate until that person is found and removes their own lock. There is no mercy for the continued employment of one who forgets to grab their labeled lock before they go home. You can call them at home even and talk to them but the machine is not to be operated until they remove the lock with their own hands.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Isn’t this the company that Pelosi’s husband has interest in or maybe even owns?

StarKist Tuna. The owner is Del Monte, based in Pelosi's district. Pelosi's husband owns millions in stock in StarKist.

[jonrick46]

Bumble Bee and Chicken of the Sea are using facilities in Thailand to clean and can their tuna. This was violating the origin rules of the Buy America standards. There also were allegations that workers suffered terrible conditions while cleaning tuna. Because they were escaping USDA standards, a ban was placed in schools for their tuna. Millions of dollars in government sales were at stake. Rep. Linda Sánchez (D-Calif.) introduced legislation last year that would loosen the origins rules for tuna. I have no idea if those rules were loosened because that information goes nowhere in my Google search.

[eyedigress]

With HIS lock mind you.

[Thumper1960]

https://www.osha.gov/OshDoc/data_General_Facts/factsheet-lockout-tagout.pdf

[right way right]

Thanks, confirms that the outfit I was working for was in compliance. Sometimes gov regs are actually a good thing. (Doh!)

[Thumper1960]

After seeing all those training films, with blackened corpses as the warning, yeah....some regs do make sense.

[right way right]

Oh, the films, and then you get the extra sadistic safety officers that bring in their own hand picked slides showing them right before lunch break.
They can’t even give some measure of mercy any more by either showing chick picts like back in the day. Things are just too PC for that anymore.

[Grams A]

Thanks for the info. I generally have a photographic memory, but occasionally run out of film. So I won’t buy Bumble Bee, Chicken of the Sea or Starkist tuna any more. What’s left?

[jonrick46]

I bought Western Family chunk light tuna for $.59 a can. I made the best tuna sandwich with my own mayonnaise. Can’t beat that.

[FreedomPoster]

Bingo. Perhaps even a multi-lockout hasp.