There are three new California workplace fatalities from early March. In Los Angeles, an employee died after becoming trapped under a forklift at the Port of Los Angeles. Firefighters responded to the scene but found the man already had died. No other information about this incident was available as Cal-OSHA Reporter went to press. We …
There were three new California workplace fatalities in late February. In Rancho Cordova, an employee of an as-yet unidentified company was crushed by a vehicle that slid off an elevated lift. In Signal Hill, an employee of Power Trip Rentals was killed after being run over by a vehicle he was working on. The company …
Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health has cited about a dozen employers in fatality cases from the late spring and summer of 2023. Here’s what happened in these cases, DOSH’s subsequent action, and the lessons that can be drawn from these incidents. Northern California Fire Protection Services: A May 16th incident involving a fall …
There are three new California workplace fatalities from late February. In Los Angeles, an employee of the Pasadena-based landscaping company Top Notch Tree Service was discovered dead at the bottom of a swimming pool at a residential home, with a weed-whacker on top of him. The tree service is a licensed landscaping company with no …
There are four new California workplace fatalities from early February. In Tulare, a delivery driver for Montico, Inc., was involved in a fatal single-vehicle rollover accident on state Highway 99. The employee was declared dead at the scene. Montico is an engineering firm based in Fresno, with an EMR of 086. In Oceanside, an employee …
There are four new California workplace fatalities through early February. In San Luis Obispo, an officer for the California Department of Corrections had died after falling ill and being hospitalized in November. The officer was diagnosed with Valley Fever. In Fremont, an employee of Cisco Systems was on a team-building hike when she became ill …
Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health and employers have finalized several fatality cases. Here’s how those cases settled out: YRC Freight: This San Diego employer has withdrawn its appeal of four citations issued after the death of Raymond Glover, 81, a security guard at the company’s facility in October 2019. His primary employer was …
There are three new California workplace fatalities from the middle of January, two of them from falls. In Nevada City, the owner of Roth Tree Co. was killed in a fall. Thomas Roth, a tree surgeon, was removing a tree from the roof of a house when he fell from the roof. His employee took …