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Mixing Water With What?

The Cal/OSHA Standards Board denied a petition by a Kansas electrical lineman to require cup holders on aerial devices used in this work. The Board said the request was not only unnecessary but could pose unique hazards. Although the Board doesn’t mention it in its decision, petitioner Landon Dees has an obvious interest in seeing … Read More »

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Workplace Fatality Update – Sept 27, 2024

There are five new California workplace fatalities. Two of them are from falls. In Modesto, a welder for New Century Construction & Consulting was working from a nine-foot ladder, lost his balance, and fell backward. He did not initially appear to be seriously injured and went home, but was found by his wife unresponsive at … Read More »

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Permanent Silica Proposal Revised

In response to requests from industry stakeholders, industrial hygienists, and Fed-OSHA, the Cal/OSHA Standards Board has revised the proposed permanent version of its silica reforms aimed at engineered stone shops. Comments on the 15-Day Notice of Proposed Modifications are due by late September. The revisions address concerns from the tile industry worried it could be … Read More »

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VPP Recognition

  Several California employers have either recertified under Cal/OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Program or added a new VPP-Construction site. The new VPP-C site is the Performing Arts Building at Cal State Bakersfield, a project managed by general contractors Rudolph and Sletten, based in Menlo Park. The $90 million project includes a new 77,000-square-foot performing arts building … Read More »

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Fatality Cases Settled – Sept 20, 2024

Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health has resolved three workplace fatality cases with the affected cited employers. The employers, overall, will pay upwards of 70% of the proposed penalties in these cases. Here are the results: Mr. Crane: This Orange-based crane service will pay $33,810 (75%) of a proposed $45,360 for an accident at … Read More »

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Workplace Fatality Update – Sept 20, 2024

There are three new California workplace fatalities. Eurofins Electrical and Electronic Testing of Union City:  An operations manager was found unresponsive, and the suspicion is that he suffered an electric shock at the company’s testing facility. The employee died at the scene. Eurofins is a French company specializing in product testing for electrical components and … Read More »

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Trench Safety Awareness

With the death of a 27-year old construction worker last week in a trench collapse in San Diego, California has experienced three such fatalities since June of 2023. Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health cited two employers in the 2023 cases and is investigating the latest incident. The employee was killed in San Diego’s … Read More »

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