Employers and Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health recently reached settlements in dozens of cases, including several fatalities. Here are the results of the most serious cases. Multi-Family Property …
The lists for the most cited Cal/OSHA safety orders and the most appealed standards are virtually the same as last year’s list. The total violations represented by the 25 most …
The Cal/OSHA Appeals Board has released dozens of recently settled citation cases. Here are some of the most significant, including two fatalities. Republic Waste Services of Southern California, Anaheim: This …
California workplaces suffered four tragic fatalities in the waning days of January. Near Fresno, a female employee of farm labor contractor Blessed Harvest, working at Del Ray Packing Plant, was …
California workplaces have suffered eight fatalities in the past two weeks. Here is the latest information: There were two fatal falls. In Buena Park, an employee of Belmont Builders, Inc., …
Following three workplace crushing fatalities in the first two weeks of January, there has been another. This incident was in Wilmington, involving an employee of UCTI Shipping. He was fatally …
The tragic death of an Alameda County deputy sheriff recently could have been prevented – and other cases involving similar incidents have lessons that employers would do well to heed. …
In our May 13 story, “How Does California Stack Up Against the Country on Fatalities” (p. 11472) we stated that California’s “workplace fatality rate is second lowest in the nation, …