Most painful death in the history:
Hearing the circumstances behind the death of Jose Melena really shook me. In October, 2011 Jose was a 62 year old man, not far off from retirement, with a loving family that he supported with his job at the Bumblebee Tuna canning factory near Los Angeles.
Jose's job was to load the giant pressure cookers with the cans of tuna that were eventually going to be sold to the public. One day Jose was loading the cans of tuna and he decided to go to the back of the oven to check on a interior piece of the machinery.
A coworker, who didn't realize Jose was in the tank, shut the door and turned the pressure cooker on. About an hour and a half later, when the tank was finished cooling, they opened it up to find Jose had been slowly cooked alive.
For more details check out this LA Times article: Details emerge about how Bumble Bee worker died in pressure cooker
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One other horrifying death is that of Mason Cox. Sorry if details are shaky, I'm pulling this from a memory of news video I saw.
In December, 2015, 19 year old Mason Cox had persuaded his cousin to take him along to help out with the landscaping work he had recently been hired to do. After much begging and pleading, his cousin finally agreed to take him along.
He introduced Mason to his boss and Mason was given a job of throwing the chopped down tree limbs in to the wood chipper. At one point Mason tried to kick a branch in to the wood chipper. When the branch didn't go in properly he moved in closer to kick it through.
However, his pant leg got caught up with the branch and Mason was inadvertently pulled feet first in to the wood chipper. By the time anyone realized there was a problem it was already too late and Mason had been killed. It broke his grandmother's heart. I remember in the video she was one of the most inconsolable people I have ever seen.
Edit: I found the video I remembered watching:Gastonia teen killed after being pulled into wood chipper
So terribly, terribly, sad.
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