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Bumble Bee pays record settlement in death of worker trapped in oven

By September 3, 2015July 21st, 2017News & Articles, Safety

Bumble Bee Foods, L.L.C. will pay a record $6 million (US) in the settlement of a case involving the death of a worker who was trapped in an oven.

Jose Melena was trapped and subsequently killed, when a fellow worker loaded the oven with tuna, not realising Jose was inside the oven.

The full write-up here.