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Canned tuna manufacturer Bumble Bee Foods charged over death of worker killed in cooker

San Diego-based food manufacturer Bumble Bee and two of the company’s managers were charged with violating safety regulations after a worker was cooked to death in a pressure cooker in 2012.Jose Melena, aged 62, was doing maintenance work in a 35 foot long pressure cooker at Bumble Bee Foods’ Santa Fe Springs plant before dawn on October 11, 2012.