The Los Angeles County Coroner’s office has confirmed that the death of a 63-year-old postal carrier in Woodland Hills last July was caused by heat illness. Peggy Frank, an employee of the United States Postal Service for 28 years, was discovered dead in her mail truck on July 13 during a severe Southern California heat …
In 2016, ACCO Engineered Systems experienced 29 lost-workday cases, 23 incidents with job transfer or restriction and a total of 70 recordable injuries or illnesses. With some 2,500 employees and almost 6 million worker-hours that year, it translated to a lost workday rate of 0.97 and a total recordable rate of 2.34. To put that …
Cal-OSHA Reporter has learned that Juliann Sum, chief of the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, has advised senior staff she plans to retire. She is unlikely to wait for a replacement to be appointed by the next governor. The Department of Industrial Relations public relations staff is playing things close to the vest. But …
Correctional officers have a life expectancy of some 16 years less than the average population according to Corrections Today magazine. Guards live with dangerous situations, from drugs needles, and gassing. A recent report from California’s Bureau of State Audits takes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and local jails to task for their response to …
Cal/OSHA is investigating four more workplace fatalities, including two deadly falls. In San Diego, an employee of Golden Roofing, a subcontractor to BRS Roofing, fell from the third story of a building after tripping over a parapet. In Sherman Oaks, a landscaper for Nicholas Gonzalez suffered fatal injuries when he fell while working at a …
Cal/OSHA’s Bureau of Investigations, (BOI) which probes the most serious safety cases and makes prosecution recommendations to district attorneys, is facing a crisis. In fact, some close to BOI say there might not be a BOI, or at least much of one, in the very near future. Insiders say the bureau is suffering the death …
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed AB 1790, which mandates the California Department of Public Health to conduct an awareness campaign to help prevent Valley Fever. It was one of three bills sponsored by Assemblyman Rudy Salas, Jr., on the issue, but the only one to survive the legislative process. One of the other bills, AB …
The Cal/OSH Standards Board has named Michael Manieri, its principal safety engineer, as acting executive officer while the board searches for a new EO. The move comes in the wake of Marley Hart’s retirement this summer. “Mr. Manieri will serve as both Acting Executive Officer and Principal Safety Engineer while the board completes the process …