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Unguarded Presses Maim Workers, Bring $1.4 Million – Penalty and Show Need for Keeping OSHA Funding

SAN FRANCISCO – On May 18 Fed-OSHA proposed $1,368,000 in penalties against Omega Plastics Corp., in Lyndhurst, NJ, for alleged violations of machine and power transmission guarding requirements that resulted in 10 serious injuries in a 13-month period. All the injuries were preventable, OSHA said. The company manufactures plastic bags for merchandise, using presses for … Read More »

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Citation Based on TB Infections Dismissed on Appeal

SAN FRANCISCO – Over a period of five months, an industrial hygienist with Cal-OSHA conducted an inspection of the San Diego County Jail’s facility at Vista. She was there because of a complaint alleging that employees were exposed to harmful exposures from airborne tuberculosis bacilli. (Fifteen cases of tuberculosis had been housed there in the … Read More »

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Support for TB Standard

SAN FRANCISCO – The American Industrial Hygiene Association has announced its support of an OSHA standard designed to control or prevent occupational transmission of tuberculosis. It believes the standard should be based on the October 28, 1994, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines. The AIHA made a 10-point statement of support in a … Read More »

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Agenda for July 20 Standards Board Meeting

SAN FRANCISCO – On July 20 at 10 a.m. the Cal-OSH Standards Board will hold its regular monthly meeting and hearing in the auditorium at 1350 Front St., San Diego. Two items are set for public hearing. Proposed new General Industry 5585.1 would require Class IIIB storage tanks to be equipped with external liquid level … Read More »

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More Safety Aids

SAN FRANCISCO – JOBSITE POSTERS FOR CONTRACTORS: Pat Lake Solutions in Costa Mesa offers a large laminated poster which contains the required postings for jobsite compliance in Spanish and English. These posters are customized to include your Code of Safe Practices (required by Construction 1509(b), (c)). Also, Industrial Trucks Operating Rules (General Industry 3664), Crane … Read More »

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Eager Bee Stings Cal-OSHA

SAN FRANCISCO – An article in the June 19 Sacramento Bee spoke highly of The Hand Book by Stephanie Brown, a concert pianist who has shown computer and other keyboard users how to protect themselves from repetitive stress injuries. Unfortunately, the second paragraph of the article stated that Cal-OSHA was “distributing” the book. Telephones in … Read More »

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Green Light for Manslaughter Case – Against K&L Plating?

SAN FRANCISCO – Robert McSkimming, owner of K&L Plating, and his foreman have been battling to avoid going to trial for manslaughter, but they may have run out of appeals. On May 17 the California Supreme Court denied the claim that they were being hounded by two “rogue agencies”—the Alameda County district attorney’s office and … Read More »

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More About Gade

SAN FRANCISCO – Gade v. National Solid Wastes Management Association has been invoked by the coalition of manufacturers who filed a CASPA (Complaint Against State Plan Administration) with Fed-OSHA. They assert that Cal-OSHA’s hazard communication standard is unenforceable because it differs from Fed-OSHA’s and because it was amended to include Prop. 65 warnings. (See NEWS … Read More »

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