The State Fire Marshal says his agency has completed its investigation into the deadly July 1st, 2025, explosion at Yolo County fireworks warehouse that killed seven workers. Chief Daniel Berlant, who heads the Office of the State Fire Marshal (OSFM), which oversees Cal Fire, says its report is now headed to the Yolo County District …
Cal/OSHA’s beleaguered Bureau of Investigation has gone from having only two investigators in Southern California and none in the north in 2023 to having a new chief investigator and eight new investigators, all since July of this year. Moreover, the Division has reimagined how the bureau should operate, moving investigators from central hubs such as …
Cal/OSHA’s Bureau of Investigations (BOI) will have no personnel in Northern California following the resignation of Julio Alfaro, a senior investigator who was the lone BOI representative in the north …
Those in the Cal/OSHA community who’ve been around a long time remember the bad old days when the Appeals Board had a considerable backlog. It was in the early 2000s and took years and considerable effort to clear. Beginning with the successful effort to clear the cases, the Board has taken on a “customer service” …