Bumble Bee tuna plant employee dies after accidentally being cooked in oven
:eek: What a horrible way to go!
Let’s hope he doesn’t turn pink in the can!
Someone really bumbled on that one. Do they have no safety precautions?
Don’t bee ridiculous. They do all they can.
A friend who was safety officer for a lumber company (also in California) had one of their employees fall into the bark stripper (basically a big drum with spikes that roll the logs to strip the bark off). That guy had to be slurped out into Tupperware containers when the machine got done with him.
Well, I’m never eating Bumble Bee tuna, that’s for damned sure.
I like that the obnoxious popover ad on that site is for beekeeping supplies.
That story shocks me to my albacore.
Dude.
“No, Jose. Bumble-Bee wants employees with Good Taste…”
The callousness of some of the comments on that article is just stunning. And they aren’t even anonymous!
Welcome to the internet.
Thank goodness our comments are only done in jest. :rolleyes:
So that’s why the back of the can has this note:
May contain humans
But seriously, I am wondering just how this incident occurred, and how long it was until they discovered him; the machines are automatic, aren’t they, so they would continue the um, processing if not stopped.
It’s the usual morbid humor, where “comedy” is used as a defense mechanism so as to shield one’s mind from the full horror of what occurred. VERY typical of first responders, though traditionally they don’t indulge in front of the “civilians”. Not unknown in civilians as a way of coping with news stories like this.
In other words, although offensive to some, it’s actually a pretty human response to a bad accident.
Well… there’s “malfunctioning safety mechanisms”, there’s “a worker disabled a safety mechanism for reason X”, there’s “freak accident”, “potential suicide”, “potential foul play”…
Hence, it’s being investigated.
From the machine being termed a “steamer”, it’s possible that the death occurred very quickly (which might have been a mercy to the victim). In other words, even if other workers had seen him fall into/trapped in the oven they may simply not have been able to extract him in time.
Horrific accidents are a risk in heavy industry. I’ve heard some stories from our local steel mills that would curl your hair. Let’s just say that molten steel is NOT forgiving, nor are the power systems required for blast furnace or rolling mill. Then there are Hideous Farm Accidents… Food factories likewise have hazards, as documented since the days of Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle.
I’ve come to believe that argument less and less.
Most places have to have a lockout/tagout program for when equipment is cleaned or maintained. People who work there get too casual about it and don’t do the full lockout/tagout (e.g. they leave power on to equipment that should have the breaker killed for cleaning). Then somehow, they activate the machine and then you end up with Bubba-soup. Odds are the steamer is designed to handled already de-boned filets, so when it hit a human skull or arm bone or some other lumpy bit, the machine stopped processing. Other wise, Bubba might have ended up canned (and not in the pink-slip sort of way).
Well, as I said, it’s human. That doesn’t mean it’s ideal.
I think it’s more excusable from first responders blowing off steam (meaning, not in public/in front of a camera) but yeah, coming from counch jockeys it often becomes mean-spirited and just nasty.
Pun intended?