Employers are reminded that they are required to post their annual summaries of 2016 work-related injuries and illness through April. Current and former employers and employee representatives have the right to view the Cal/OSHA Form 300A in its entirety. April is the last month of the three-month period when the form must be posted in …
A Napa Valley winery has paid more than $44,000 in penalties in the August 2016 death of an employee crushed by a stack of wine barrels being unloaded from a container. The case concluded just a few weeks after Cal/OSHA issued the citations in February. The agency cited Trinchero Family Estates for four serious and …
A San Francisco employer whose two employees were crushed by slabs of granite in February 2014 was sentenced last week. He received one year of home detention and three years of probation following prosecution by the city’s district attorney. Phillip Marich, 53, and Hector Vasquez, 46, were killed in February 2014 when a bundle of …
Our sharp-eyed colleague, Brad Cain of our sister publication, Workers’ Comp Executive, snapped this photo of a construction project outside his home in San Francisco. Shouldn’t this guy have some fall protection, he asks Cal-OSHA Reporter? So… we asked a couple of experts, and here’s what they said. They requested anonymity, so were providing just …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health says it is following a new law on single-use toilets and will enforce the requirement that single-user toilets be identified as gender-neutral. DOSH clarified the policy in light of a 2016 law, AB 1732, which requires employers to identify single-user toilet facilities as “all-gender.” Currently, Construction Safety Orders …
Another California worker has died from a fall, while two other people – one a civilian – were crushed to death in the waning days of March and early April. A fourth was from natural causes, but Cal/OSHA still is investigating the circumstances. A fifth fatality is not being investigated because it happened next to …
Unknown to most California employers is an Appeals Board rule that can award up to $5,000 to employers win some cases or beat some cites. One company won over $13,000. The caveat is that the employer has to prove that the Cal/OSHA issued the citation as a result of “arbitrary or capricious action.” One action …
Cal/OSHA is investigating the circumstances surrounding two California employees who suffered workplace fatalities.There is little information on the incidents at press time, but the Division of Occupational Safety and Health believes they might be work related. DOSH has decided not to investigate three other cases in recent days that were determined to be from natural …