There are 10 new California workplace fatalities under investigation, eight of them from COVID. The non-COVID fatalities include: An electrocution in Planada, Merced County. An employee of Garcia Bros. Trucking was killed after making contact with an electrical panel. In Lamont, Kern County, an employee of Zim Industries, doing business as Bakersfield Well and Pump, …
In the leadup to Cal/OSHA’s COVID emergency temporary standard (ETS), many stakeholders touted the Injury and Illness Prevention Program standard as the model for regulating during a pandemic, instead of an ETS. In fact, before the COVID standard went into effect, DOSH cited more than three dozen employers under the IIPP standard for violations related …
The Cal/OSHA Standards Board has canceled its first in-person meeting since March 2020 in favor of continued teleconferencing. The move comes as Governor Gavin Newsom signs AB 361, which authorizes an extension of teleconferencing for state and local governmental meetings. In September, the board announced it would meet in person in Sacramento on October 21st. …
There are nine new workplace fatalities under investigation, five of them reported as COVID-related, a sharp decrease from recent weeks. The non-COVID fatalities include a vehicle incident, a caught-between, a struck-by and an undetermined death. The vehicle incident was in San Diego, where an employee of Otay Mesa Sales was ejected from a forklift when …
There are 20 new workplace fatalities under investigation, 15 of them reported as COVID-related. The non-COVID fatalities include a fall, a struck-by incident and three as-yet undetermined fatalities. The fall was in Canyon Lake, Riverside County, where an employee of Folliott Construction died from head trauma after falling 20 feet from a roof. The struck-by …
Sneaked into the congressional Democrats’ $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill last weekend – shortly before the Budget Committee approved it – are ten-fold increases in Fed-OSHA penalties for serious, willful, and …
Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health’s announcement that it intends to start work on a permanent version of the Title 8 COVID regulation raises several questions. Stakeholders at a Thursday, September 23rd advisory got some answers and gave DOSH constructive comments on shaping the potential regulation. First and foremost, the Division clarified the timing …
There are 24 new workplace fatalities under investigation, 16 of them reported as COVID related. By comparison, in the same period, there were 11 homicides, 8 in the Los Angeles area, seven of them from shootings and the eighth undetermined, one fatal shooting in the San Joaquin Valley, and two homicides in the Sacramento area, …