SAN DIEGO – Two workers were crushed to death recently in Los Angeles. A reader sent us one report. “A Sasco Electric employee was killed on the job. (While) he was working on a scissors lift in a doorway, in an existing building which was being remodeled, he pushed the ‘Up’ control button rather than …
LOS ANGELES – HIGH HAZARD EMPLOYER PROGRAM: As of March 3, 1998, Alvarez said approximately 5,800 “offer letters” had been sent to employers with workers’ comp X-Mod ratings at or above 125 percent. In addition to the notices of assessments to support the HHEP, employers are offered a choice of Cal-OSHA consultative assistance or loss …
LOS ANGELES – More than 700 people are killed and 5,000 injured each year in accidents that occur in road construction sites across the nation. As more highway improvement work is performed under traffic and at night, there will be a greater need to reduce incidents associated with temporary highway work zones. In February 1998, …
LOS ANGELES – CONSTRUCTION ADVISORY COMMITTEE: The 15 members of the rechartered Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health (ACCSH) met in Washington, DC, April 8 and 9. Its chairman is Tim Lee Nichols, AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades department. There is only one member from California. He is Owen Smith, president of Anazalone & …
LOS ANGELES – The latest bad news about exposures to second-hand smoke (or environmental tobacco smoke – ETS) was delivered April 1 at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology. Researchers led by William Parmley, MD, UCSF professor of medicine, after conducting rabbit studies, concluded that exposure to ETS for just one-half hour …
LOS ANGELES – Prevent Blindness America has announced a new web site – www.preventblindness.org – that uses a powerful format to connect visitors to the latest in eye safety and health. In response to an estimated 2.4 million eye injuries reported this year, Prevent Blindness dedicated a large section of the new site to prevention …
LOS ANGELES – The number on last week’s Hughes Space and Communications decision summary is incorrect. Please change it to 19,204 (instead of 19,024). .ENDSECTION
SAN DIEGO – On April 3, the Division of Occupational Safety and Health issued five citations to Traylor Brothers/Frontier Kemper for violations of state workplace safety regulations related to the October 8, 1997, fatal accident at the company’s Metro Rail subway project. The dead man was a mechanic who was struck and killed by equipment …