A utility lineman and an elderly motorist were killed and a crane operator arrested after the motorist drove into one end of a power pole being suspended by a crane in Upland Dec. 6. The crane operator, identified as Joseph Dimaano, 31, was part of a contract crew replacing a power pole when the incident …
A northern Sacramento Valley metal fabricator has been charged with willfully violating Cal/OSHA regulations on machine guarding after a press brake operator was seriously injured three years after the company was cited for smiliar violations on the same set of machines. The Redding district office of California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) issued …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) is investigating a worker death at an El Monte aircraft parts manufacturer in a Dec. 3 explosion. Department of Industrial Relations spokesman Dean Fryer said it was reported to DOSH as an explosion in an oven used to prepare liners between airplane bulkheads. The deceased worker was …
Cal/OSHA Consultation Service announces the latest recipients of recognition under the service’s Golden Gate program. It is one of several recognition programs for safety achievement among California employers. Under Golden Gate, employers who have requested consultation and subsequently are deemed by the service to have an effective Injury and Illness Prevention Program are awarded a …
As its first order of business in the new year, Cal/OSH Standards Board will hold a public hearing in Orange County Jan. 18 on two new safety order revisions, including a rule change adopted by Fed-OSHA in August. The proposals include the California version of federal action on assigned protection factors for respirators, and a …
Worker safety cases referred to local prosecutors by Cal/OSHA’s Bureau of Investigations (BOI) were down about 10 percent in 2005, and cases actually charged by district attorneys down more than 40 percent over 2004, according to the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) official report to the California Legislature. The report also notes that the Worker …
The Division of Occupational Safety and Health has released the confirmed 2007 schedule for the Cal/OSHA Advisory Committee, which meets every other month to learn about what’s happening with the Cal/OSHA program. The committee meets alternately in Los Angeles and Oakland. The Los Angeles meetings are in the Conference Center at the Department of Water …
The seminal multiemployer worksite case C. Overaa & Co. is headed for a Dec. 11 hearing before the Third Appellate District in Sacramento. Overaa was cited by California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) as the controlling employer at a site where a subcontractor was working in a trench deeper than five feet that …