Bumble Bee to pay $6 million over death of employee in tuna oven
In the biggest-ever settlement in California over workplace safety violations involving a single victim, Bumble Bee Foods will pay $6 million in the death of an employee who was accidentally cooked in a 270 degree industrial oven.
An investigation by the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health found that the company’s oven system was inherently dangerous, because the chains pulling carts of tuna into the ovens were prone to getting snagged, requiring workers to enter the ovens in order to pull the carts through.