Cal/OSHA is investigating 16 recent workplace fatalities, including five from COVID-19 infections. They include: A registered nurse at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles; A licensed vocational nurse for …
Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health has reached agreement with employers in fatality and serious injury cases. Here are the most interesting results from research conducted exclusively by Cal-OSHA …
47 COR 40-8269 [¶23,027] GENERAL MOBILE EQUIPMENT AND AUXILIARIES – INDUSTRIAL TRUCKS, TRACTORS, HAULAGE VEHICLES, AND EARTHMOVING EQUIPMENT, POWERED INDUSTRIAL TRUCK OPERATOR TRAINING, CERTIFICATION Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, § …
47 COR 40-8257 [¶23,019R] JURISDICTION – PETITION FOR RECONSIDERATION Labor Code § 6614(a) (2020) – The Appeals Board lacked jurisdiction to grant Employer’s untimely petition for reconsideration. Digest of COSHAB’s …
47 COR 40-8245 [¶23,011] CONSTRUCTION SAFETY ORDERS – INJURY AND ILLNESS PREVENTION PROGRAM (IIPP) Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, §§ 1509(a), 3203(a)(4), (a)(6) (2019) – Employer failed to ensure that …
In one of the first workplace fatalities of the new year, a Fairfield man was killed at Lind Marine in Petaluma during an apparent salvaging operation. The company, located by …
There has been another preventable fatal fall. The week’s latest workplace fatalities also include two incidents for now classified as “unknown.” The fall was in Newman where tree trimmer Comelio …