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Bumble Bee Foods Ordered to Pay $6 Million After an Employee Dies In Fatal Workplace Accident
Bumble Bee Foods Ordered to Pay $6 Million After an Employee Dies In Fatal Workplace Accident

One early morning in October 2012, an employee of Bumble Bee Foods was carrying pallets of canned tuna into a 35-foot-long oven. While the man was still inside the oven, other employees shut the door without noticing the man was missing. He died in the pressure cooker due to ...

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