There are three new California workplace fatalities. In Sun Valley, San Fernando Valley, a truck driver for Sandino Freight Services suffered a traumatic head injury after falling from a big rig and striking their head on the ground. The driver was transported to a hospital but died of the injury. In Los Angeles, a tree …
Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health has cited several employers following investigations into fatalities that occurred earlier this year. Here are the latest: American Equipment. This Salt Lake City, Utah-based building equipment contractor faces one general and four serious violations, with almost $80,000 in proposed penalties following the January 30th death of a 29-year-old …
There have been six new workplace fatalities in California. In San Diego, an employee of Beach Cities Coatings fell about 10 feet from a ladder and sustained fatal head injuries. The deck waterproofing company is too small to qualify for an EMR. It has workers’ compensation coverage through State Compensation Insurance Fund. In San Jose, …
There are seven new California workplace fatalities, four of them from struck-by incidents. In Fremont, a driver for Argonaut Window & Door was unloading a pallet of doors in early October when the doors fell on his leg. He was transported to a hospital, treated and released, but 10 days later returned to the hospital, …
There are five new workplace fatalities in California. In San Francisco, a scaffold incident killed one employee of Tong Construction and critically injured another. A painter working on a scaffold fell, striking another employee. The fallen worker died, and the second was hospitalized in critical condition. Public records appear to indicate that the employer informed …
There are three new California workplace fatalities. In San Francisco, a “community ambassador” for Urban Alchemy was killed after an encounter with a drug abuser. Joey Alexander, 60, was an ex-convict working for the non-profit organization that confronts street people engaged in negative behavior. He confronted the suspect, Edmund Lawrence Bowen, 42, and asked him …
An August accident in Southern Florida involving a big rig that killed three people made national news. It involved an alleged illegal alien driver licensed by California and uncovered major issues with California’s commercial driver’s license (CDL) program. And California is not alone in its issues. Texas, for instance, leads the nation by far in …
There are nine new California workplace fatalities, five of them from struck-by incidents. In Walnut Creek, Mahdi Khorram, an employee of Caltrans, was struck by an asphalt truck driving in reverse on a road project along Highway 4 near Crockett. Khorram was a construction inspector for the transportation agency. In Anaheim, a security guard for …