Here are how workplace fatality cases from recent years, including one from 2016, were resolved between Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health and employers. Cirque Du Soleil America: The international acrobatics troupe is based in Montreal, Canada. It withdrew its appeal and will pay all of the $46,500 proposed in November 2016, death of …
There are seven new California workplace fatalities. In Anaheim, a forklift operator for Regal Custom Mill Work/Highland Lumber Sales was found crushed by a rolling gate and died at the scene. The employer manufactures and distributes lumber, plywood, molding, and other wood products. The company has a 97 EMR and is insured by Cypress Insurance …
Here are some of the latest cases brought against employers regarding 2023 fatal workplace incidents. Most cases have been contested at the Cal/OSHA Appeals Board, of which two have been settled. Employers are presumed innocent in the appeals process. Fatalities in Farmland The Division of Occupational Safety and Health has cited Woodland’s Payne Farms …
There are six new California workplace fatalities. Three may not be work related. There were two acts of workplace violence: In Irvine, an employee of United Parcel Service was shot in his work truck while making deliveries. The employee, 50-year-old Expedito Cuesta De Leon, was shot 14 times and died at the scene of the …
The death of a seven-year-old Marin County boy and a spate of workplace fatalities throughout California from gate accidents have converged to reform gate safety. Both a petition to amend Cal/OSHA’s rules and a legislative effort are underway. The Cal/OSHA petition was submitted by Standards Board public member Joseph Alioto, Jr. He seeks to revise …
Here are the results of 10 workplace fatality cases that were recently finalized in settlement agreements between the respective employers and Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health. The Appeals Board approved the deals. Crushing Incidents Hi Grade Materials Co.: This Hesperia construction materials producer will pay $51,030 (68%) of Cal/OSHA’s proposed $75,000 for citations …
There are five new fatalities at California workplaces from late April and early May. In Fremont, trucking company Santa Clara Transfer Service driver was hospitalized after falling from his truck. He died later that evening. The company has an EMR of 97; its workers’ comp coverage is with Insurance Company of the West. In Pittsburg, …
There are nine new California workplace fatalities. They include three struck-bys, two falls, two violent incidents, a crushing, and a case of harmful exposure. At least one of the deaths involved unlicensed contractors. A tree fell on an unlicensed tree trimmer, causing death by blunt force trauma. He died two days later. Cal/OSHA was not …