Massive Bumble Bee Recall

[Sdiver]

Soylent Green is TUNA !!!!!!

Massive Bumble Bee Recall After 2 Employees Admit Cooking A Man And Mixing Him With A Batch Of Tuna

On Monday, Bumble Bee Foods and 2 employees were charged by Los Angeles prosecutors with violating safety regulations in the death of a worker who was cooked in an industrial oven with tons of tuna. José Melena was performing maintenance in a 35 foot long oven at the company’s Santa Fe Springs plant when coworkers loaded it with 12,000 pounds of canned tuna and turned it on. Temperatures reached 270° during a two-hour process to cook and sterilize the tuna. The body of Melena,62, was found when the oven was opened.

The company, its plant operations director Angel Rodriguez and former safety manager Saul Florez were each charged with three counts of violating Occupational Safety and Health Administration rules that caused a death. The charges specify that the company and the two men willfully violated rules that require: implementing a safety plan; rules for workers entering confined spaces; and a procedure in place to keep machinery or equipment turned off if somebody is working in.

Rodriguez, 63, of Riverside and Florez, 42, of Whittier could face up to three years in prison and fines up to $250,000 if convicted of all charges. Bumble Bee Foods faces a maximum fine of $1.5 million. “We remain devastated by the loss of her colleague José Melena in the tragic accident,” company said in a statement. “We disagree with and are disappointed by the charges filed by the Los Angeles Dist. Atty.’s office.”

According to the Associated Press, Florez refused to comment and messages seeking comment from Rodriguez were not immediately returned.

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[Divemaster]

This was from April of last year. Why is it news now?

All I know is that except for a brief period late last spring, tuna has not tasted very good since they made it "dolphin safe".

[CAARNG 68W]

Geez, what a horrible way to die.

Thank God I loaded up on the Starkist at the Dollar Tree yesterday

Originally Posted by Divemaster

tuna has not tasted very good since they made it "dolphin safe".

[PRB]

I think we ate some of that batch...it was good, had a spicier flavor. Hint of jalapeno.

[CSB]

Fiction site, with Onion or Duffleblog type parodies.

FACTS: Worker was inside a 35 foot long autoclave (think railroad tank car, or silo laid on its side). Sealed tuna cans are loaded into racks, stacked onto wheeled gurneys, and then the load, weighing several tons, is rolled into the autoclave by a motorized pusher. The outer door is closed airtight, and steam is jetted into the tank. It cooks and pasteurizes the tuna fish. (The same process is used for sardines, oysters, etc.). The stem is vented off after an hour or so, and when the inside has cooled a little the door is opened and the motor pusher pulls the 30 feet of racks out onto the factory floor, where the cans are removed for labeling and shipping.

Now think of a workman who doesn't execute any kind of "lockout" plan, either on the door, the steam controls, the push motors, nothing. He walked down the interior of the tank to do some kind of maintenance. At the far end of an unlit tank, he was not visible to the motor operator who began pushing the next load of tuna down the rails, no doubt with a clanging of wheels, clattering of cans, plenty enough to muffle any yells from the far end of the tank "Hey, guys, I'm in here!"

Doors swing shut, steam blasts into the tank, everything -- and everybody -- in the tank is fully cooked in an hour.

A tragedy, but to be blunt, the tuna cans were in excellent condition, still totally sealed and fully cooked. There was no human tissue in the tuna.

[Sdiver]

Punching myself in the NVTS now ....

I meant to put this in the Comedy Thread.

[Divemaster]

Originally Posted by CSB

Fiction site, with Onion or Duffleblog type parodies.

FACTS: Worker was inside a 35 foot long autoclave (think railroad tank car, or silo laid on its side). Sealed tuna cans are loaded into racks, stacked onto wheeled gurneys, and then the load, weighing several tons, is rolled into the autoclave by a motorized pusher. The outer door is closed airtight, and steam is jetted into the tank. It cooks and pasteurizes the tuna fish. (The same process is used for sardines, oysters, etc.). The stem is vented off after an hour or so, and when the inside has cooled a little the door is opened and the motor pusher pulls the 30 feet of racks out onto the factory floor, where the cans are removed for labeling and shipping.

Now think of a workman who doesn't execute any kind of "lockout" plan, either on the door, the steam controls, the push motors, nothing. He walked down the interior of the tank to do some kind of maintenance. At the far end of an unlit tank, he was not visible to the motor operator who began pushing the next load of tuna down the rails, no doubt with a clanging of wheels, clattering of cans, plenty enough to muffle any yells from the far end of the tank "Hey, guys, I'm in here!"

Doors swing shut, steam blasts into the tank, everything -- and everybody -- in the tank is fully cooked in an hour.

A tragedy, but to be blunt, the tuna cans were in excellent condition, still totally sealed and fully cooked. There was no human tissue in the tuna.

Buzzkill.

[Sdiver]

Originally Posted by Divemaster

Buzzkill.

He is, isn't he?

Is it me, or does it seem that CSB has become grumpy(ier) in his late middle ages ???

[Divemaster]

Originally Posted by Sdiver

He is, isn't he?

Is it me, or does it seem that CSB has become grumpy(ier) in his late middle ages ???

His late Middle Ages, or his Early Renaissance?

[Sdiver]

Originally Posted by Divemaster

His late Middle Ages, or his Early Renaissance?

.... or his Dark Ages. #NotARacist