There are three new California workplace fatalities, including one confined space death. The confined space accident occurred in an underground gas tank at a Costco store in Sacramento. An employee of Ponder Environmental Services assigned to clean holding tanks passed out either from fumes or from a medical emergency, according to a news report. The …
There are five new California workplace fatalities. In Corona Del Mar, an employee of Lighthouse Exteriors was working on a two-story residential roof, cutting metal, but fell to the ground, succumbing at the scene. The Costa Mesa-based contractor has a .80 experience modification (EMR) and workers’ comp coverage through Oak River Insurance. In Corona, a …
A fatality case that began with the incident in January 2016 has come to an end with a lawsuit dismissal in Sacramento County Superior Court. United Parcel Service challenged a Cal/OSHA Appeals Board Decision After Reconsideration in 2019, but this spring the two sides agreed to end the case. The package delivery giant had filed …
There are nine new California workplace fatalities, four from falls, three from struck-bys, and two others from possible harmful exposure. In Northridge, a tree trimmer for Zenobia Miguel Tree Service was cutting a palm tree at a private residence when he accidentally cut the rope line and fell about 30 feet to the ground. Neither …
There are four new California workplace fatalities. Two may not be work-related. In Hemet, an employee of Venecio Francisco Tree Service fell 20 feet from a palm tree and a residential home. No other information is immediately available about either this incident or the employer. In Berkeley, a construction worker for an as-yet unidentified subcontractor …
There are 10 workplace fatalities from the first two weeks of July, including a multiple-fatality explosion. That explosion occurred in Los Angeles, where three deputies for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department were killed at the Biscailuz Training Center, which houses the department’s arson explosive detail. According to news reports, a bomb squad was moving …
There are 17 new workplace fatalities. Seven came from one incident. The other fatalities include five struck-by incidents, four falls, and a possible case of harmful exposure. On July 1st, an enormous explosion occurred at a fireworks storage facility in Esparto, Yolo County, killing seven workers, including the company’s general manager and an 18-year-old on …
As Cal-OSHA Reporter reported in last week’s Workplace Fatality Update, a nurse at the Department of State Hospitals’ Atascadero facility near Templeton died 11 days after testing positive for “active” tuberculosis (TB) and being hospitalized. Cal-OSHA Reporter determined it was worth looking into this unusual workplace fatality to learn if it portends anything more serious. …