There are three new California workplace fatalities. In Oakland, an employee of Rudsdale High School was the victim of a September 28th gang-related shooting. David Sakurai, 64, was a carpenter at the continuation school. Five others, including three employees and two students, were wounded in the incident. Sakurai was installing a countertop when two assailants …
Agricultural employer representatives have urged the Cal/OSHA Standards Board to reject an appeal from the Operating Engineers union seeking to stop an experimental variance for using autonomous tractors in two Northern California vineyards. The Operating Engineers “is not a party to the variance proceeding, as the Operating Engineers don’t represent any of the employees affected …
Inspections conducted and violations cited by Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health were both up significantly in the first quarter of 2022 versus the comparable period in 2021, according to data just released by the Division. DOSH conducted 1,469 on-site inspections between January and March of this year, 23% higher than in Q1 in …
Cal-OSHA Reporter routinely covers fatality and serious injury cases which get resolved through the settlement process between the Division of Occupational Safety and Health and employers. Every once in a while, another kind of case happens. Here is such a case. Sphere Alliance, Inc., doing business as Advanced Aircraft Seal, a Riverside employer that manufactures …
There are four new workplace fatalities. Two were from struck-bys, one from a fall, and the other from harmful exposure. The struck-bys included: A logging incident in Redcrest, Humboldt County. A employee for Steve Wills Trucking and Logging was setting chokers when a log rolled downhill, striking the employee in the head. In Big Bear, …
Fifty years of Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health doing everything on paper could be coming to an end in 2023. The Department of Industrial Relations says it is in the first phases of designing a new database management system “to increase operational efficiency and craft smarter, more reliable data.” DOSH announced the project …
Eight years after being mandated by the California Legislature, Title 8 regulations on personal protective equipment for firefighters – both structural and wildland – are now part of the California Code of Regulations, after the Office of Administrative Law signed off. But executing on the new rules is another story. The provisions are aimed at …
California workplace injury and illness data for 2021 shows slightly higher metrics over 2020 for all employment sectors. Private industry showed a slight decrease. Here are additional and more detailed statistics from the Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses, including the highest recordable incident rates, the percentage of cases that resulted in days away from …