12/17/2020
Electric Inc. Smith Electric owed a duty to protect him from falling through an unguarded attic stairwell pursuant to Cal-OSHA regulations. Cal. Occupational Saf. & Health Act of 1973 Cal-OSHA; Lab. Code § 6300 et seq.; Cal. Code Regs. tit. 8 §§ 1632 subd. b1 3213 subd. a
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06/14/2012
The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health Cal-OSHA issued 14 citations totaling 168175 in fines to a construction company in Fremont following an investigation into the death of a worker buried alive when a wall of dirt fell on him.
Raul Zapata 37 was working for U.S.-Sino
Category: News
07/05/2012
The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health said it issued seven citations with 111935 in penalties to a Southern California recycling company with a history of safety violations and worker injury.
Cal-OSHA cited EDCO Waste and Recycling Services Inc. headquartered in Lemon
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05/26/2021
The California Division of Occupational Health and Safety has fined Livingston-based chicken company Foster Farms 181500 for multiple COVID-19 workplace safety violations the agency announced.
CalOSHA said in a news release Monday that inspectors began investigating Foster Farms last July
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05/18/2011
The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health CalOSHA announced that it issued 10 citations totaling 235865 to contractor TL Pavlich Construction Inc. for alleged deliberate and willful workplace safety violations that led to a flash fire at a public works project in Montebello in
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05/20/2004
California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health CalOSHA issued two citations carrying 19215 in penalties to C.C. Myers Inc. as a result of its investigation into the Dec. 3 2003 collapse of the Imola Avenue Bridge construction project over the Napa River which resulted in the death
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09/07/2004
substitution was permitted. Second the calculator did not implement the July 1 2004 change in final discount in Medi- Cal prices. Finally the calculator did not include all the steps necessary to calculate Medi- Cal pricing for compounded prescriptions.
After working with Medi- Cal personnel on these
Category: News
07/06/2007
Thursday Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered the opening of state cooling centers in 13 counties.
The state passed the first heat-illness prevention standard in the nation last year after a summer heatwave killed more than 140.
In an advisory Thursday CalOSHA recommended that all employers
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10/16/2015
The state Division of Occupational Safety and Health said Thursday it fined two Northern California construction companies 300000 for exposing workers to cave-in hazards at a residential construction site in Piedmont.
The companies violated CalOSHAs order to stop work until the imminent
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10/26/2012
defendants the Division of Occupational Safety and Health Cal-OSHA and Cal-OSHA Chief Ellen Widess.
At least 28 farm workers have died from suspected heat illness since Cal-OSHA enacted heat illness prevention regulations in 2005 the complaint says. The safety agency however limps along continuing
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