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KamaAina

(78,249 posts) Mon Oct 15, 2012, 11:34 PM Oct 2012

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Worker cooked to death at California tuna plant

Sorry, Charlie.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Worker-cooked-to-death-at-California-tuna-plant-3944414.php

Authorities say a 62-year-old employee was cooked to death at a Southern California seafood plant for tuna maker Bumble Bee Foods.

The Whittier Daily News reports (http://bit.ly/TmJFyv ) Jose Melena was found shortly before 7 a.m. Thursday at the plant in Santa Fe Springs.

Erika Monterroza is a spokeswoman for the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health. She says it's unclear how the man ended up inside a cooking device called a "steamer machine."