Bumble Bee Foods to pay $6M in death of worker in pressure cooker

Bumble Bee Foods yesterday agreed to pay $6 million for “willfully violating worker safety rules" in the 2012 death of Jose Melena, 62.

The father of six was making a repair inside a massive industrial pressure cooker, which is used to sterilize thousands of cans of tuna at a time. Not realizing Melena was inside, his fellow employees shut the door and turned on the oven, cooking Melena to death, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Bumble Bee's fine is the largest known payout for workplace safety violations involving a single victim in a California criminal prosecution.

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