MORE ON: worker safety

Daily Report: Environment

Composting facility where brothers died fined $166,890

March 21, 2012, 7:13 PM
State workplace regulators levied $166,890 in fines and issued multiple citations today against the largest composting facility in California, near Bakersfield, where two brothers died last fall while cleaning a stormwater drain. Officials with the Division of Occupational Safety and Health,... + read more
Daily Report: Environment

Growth of composting strains oversight of industry

March 7, 2012, 12:05 AM
California’s next big step in recycling – composting its meat scraps, broken egg shells, coffee grounds and other detritus of eating – is straining the state’s ability to effectively manage the ever-growing and sometimes dangerous industry. In October, 16-year-old... + read more
Daily Report: Health and Welfare

Job safety program works when enforced, study finds

January 30, 2012, 12:05 AM
California may get a bad rap from businesses for its supposedly burdensome workplace regulations, but a new study shows that one 20-year-old provision to keep workers safe is doing its job – when it's followed up by inspections and fines. A study by the RAND Corp.... + read more
Daily Report: Health and Welfare

State agency cites pharmaceutical firm in technician's death

July 22, 2011, 12:05 AM
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health issued four of its most serious citations to Los Angeles-based bioscience company Baxter after a worker died in a blood plasma separation vat and his would-be rescuer fell into a coma. A third worker also was also injured in a rescue... + read more
Daily Report: Health and Welfare

Nonprofit calls for more workplace safety inspectors

May 2, 2011, 12:05 AM
A nonprofit worker safety group is calling on Gov. Jerry Brown to lift a statewide hiring freeze to enable the state worker safety agency to hire more inspectors. Gail Bateson, executive director of the Oakland-based nonprofit Worksafe, said the step is needed to investigate scores of injuries... + read more
Daily Report: Health and Welfare

Regulators fine Napa State Hospital $100,000 over death of worker

April 13, 2011, 6:32 PM
Napa State Hospital administrators were aware that patients who had free reign of facility grounds had a history of illegal drug use, stalking and aggressive behavior but took “no reasonable effort” to protect workers, according to a citation issued Tuesday over the death of worker... + read more
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