Friends and family members of a postal worker who was injured in a hit-and-run accident in the southern Los Angeles suburb of Compton addressed the public in a plea for justice on a local news network Oct. 22. The mother of five and grandmother of six had been working...
Month: October 2013
Two California men killed in unrelated logging injuries
Two California workers are dead after unrelated logging injuries that both appear to have been from on-the-job accidents. Authorities are still investigating the circumstances of each death, while the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration has also...
Construction site employee dies in work accident
On Oct. 14, a steel company employee in Northern California was killed while working on the construction site of the future San Francisco 49ers' football stadium. Workers have been trying to rapidly complete the project at Levi's Stadium, but a co-director for the...
Groups ask OSHA to extend comment time on silica exposure changes
Los Angeles construction companies and workers may be following with interest a request to the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration that calls for an extension on the comment period on proposed changes to rules regulating silica exposure standards....
California agency fines county over asbestos exposure
A California workplace safety agency is fining a local government for failing to take appropriate safety measures after a hazardous substance was released into the workplace. The local government is appealing the fine. The California Division of the Occupational...
