A Superior Court judge has ruled Cal/OSHA properly cited a major general contractor for a willful violation. Its crew modified a trench protective system without first consulting the designing engineer. …
45 COR 40-7959 [¶22,793R] PREHEARING PROCEDURE DISCOVERY, AND MOTIONS – ACCESS TO DOCUMENTSLabor Code § 6603, Board reg. §§ 372, 372.1 (2018) – Attorney-client privilege applied to the Division’s “willful …
California employers, already facing the highest fines in the nation for occupational safety and health violations, are about to see them ratcheted up, all thanks to actions by the U.S. …
Cal/OSHA in several recent cases agreed to settle violations, with substantial reductions in penalties. In one case, a willful violation was reduced to a general, and more than $70,000 in …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health has cited a Los Angeles employer for a March incident in which one worker was killed and another severely injured when a trench …
Despite being on “full notice” by Cal/OSHA of deficiencies in its lockout/tagout program, a Southern California employer failed to take adequate precautions, leading to a second serious injury within three …
A county inspector warned a contractor conducting a trenching project at a Malibu residence last fall that the trench needed to be re-engineered, but the contractor apparently ignored that warning, …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) says it intends to issue citations to Waste Management, Inc., including one for an alleged willful violation, after an investigation into a …