A factory worker was tragically cooked alive in an industrial oven alongside several tons of tuna
Jose Melena had been busy cleaning a 35-foot-long industrial oven at Bumble Bee Foods when a co-worker, believing Jose to be in the bathroom, filled the pressure cooker with over five tonnes of canned tuna.
The factory worker was trapped inside the machine when it was switched on.
When a supervisor noticed that the 62-year-old was missing, an announcement was made over the intercom and colleagues quickly began to search for him.
His body was found two hours later when the pressure cooker, which reached temperatures of 132C, was switched off and opened.
Now Bumble Bee Foods, its plant operations director Angel Rodriguez and former safety manager Saul Florez have been charged with three counts of violating health and safety rules.