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This involves the unfortunate, very true story of this man, Jose Melena.** The obituary photo of Mr. Jose Melena, age 62.For about a decade now, there has been an Urban Legend going around that a man was cooked alive in an oven used to process tuna. For many, this seemed too horrific to be true and was thought to be a cautionary tale of how one was supposed to be extremely careful around industrial equipment.Unfortunately, however, this is no urban legend. It actually happened.Before dawn on October 11, 2012, Jose Melena was loading a 35 foot (10.6 meter) oven at the Bumble Bee foods Santa Fe Springs, California processing facility. A co-worker, thinking that Melena was in the bathroom, filled the pressure cooker with six tons of canned tuna and turned it on.** This is the oven where Mr. Melina met his end. As you can see, it is sealed shut with the door to the left.The machine ran its full cycle with Mr. Melena inside, and two hours later, his body was found when the pressure cooker was turned off and opened. It had reached a temperature of 270° F (132°C).You are probably wondering why Mr. Melena was in the oven in the first place. An investigation by the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health showed that the chain that pulls carts of tuna into the ovens sometimes gets snagged, requiring operators to enter the ovens to pull the carts through.Bumble Bee paid $3 million to replace all of their outdated tuna ovens with automated ones and vowed never to require a worker to enter one again.They also agreed to pay $1.5 million in restitution to the Melena family and $750,000 in fines.Saul Florez, Bumble Bee’s former safety manager, pleaded guilty to a felony count of willfully violating lockout rules and indirectly causing Melena’s death.He was sentenced to three years probation, ordered to complete 30 days of community service, and was fined $19,000.

Bumble Bee to Pay $6 Million Over Employee Cooked in Tuna OvenJose Melena, 62, was loading a 35-foot-long oven at the company's Santa Fe Springs plant before dawn Oct. 11, 2012, when a co-worker, who mistakenly believed Melena was in the bathroom, filled the pressure cooker with 12,000 pounds of canned tuna and it was turned on, according to a report by the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health.The oven where a Bumble Bee worker died in 2012 in Santa Fe Springs, California. State regulators found that the chain that pulls carts of tuna into the ovens sometimes get snagged, requiring operators to enter the ovens to pull the carts through. California Division of Occupational Safety and HealthHis body was found two hours later after the pressure cooker, which reached 270 degrees, was turned off and opened.

Here in California, there's an ongoing conflict between Cal OSHA (the state occupational safety and health regulatory agency here) and the adult film industry over use of personal protective equipment during the filming of pornographic movies.To quote from their draft proposed rules:"...employer shall provide, at no cost to the employee, appropriate personal protective equipment such as, but not limited to, condoms, gloves for cleaning, and, if contact of the eyes with [bodily fluids] is reasonably anticipated, eye protection…"There are a bunch of news articles out there summarizing these issues, here's one of the better summaries:Adult film industry set to fight California regulations on condoms, eyewear on sets