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Recent news reports that California's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Cal/OSHA) has cited a fuel distribution company following a fatal workplace accident in Corona. According to the report, one worker was killed and another suffered severe burns...
A 51-year-old California man was killed while working on a construction project along eastbound Highway 68 in Salinas. The fatal accident occurred when a 50-year-old driver hit the utility worker near Corral de Tierra Road a little after midnight on Oct. 30. The...
A company in California is facing fines after spraying a pesticide too closely to a levee where construction employees were working. The incident happened in July, but it was back in the news after a plane was recorded dropping a whitewash over a nearby orchard near...
The recent Santa Clarita, California Six Flags Magic Mountain construction site accident underscores the potential dangers that exist for workers at work sites and raises questions concerning who is responsible for injuries when accidents do occur. The recent...
A civil court jury recently decided that CBS Television Studios must pay $10.45 million in damages to the family of a security guard killed on the set of a popular television show. The decedent's family filed the wrongful death lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court in...
A propane truck driver was severely burned in a blast in Los Angeles just before 12:00 p.m. on Sept. 15. According to a spokesman for the Los Angeles Fire Department, the man works for a company that transports propane to fill commercial and industrial tanks. The...
A California baggage worker’s fatal workplace accident has resulted in an investigation and hefty fine of $77,250 by officials at the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, or Cal/OSHA.Officials believe the accident occurred because local policy...
California workers' compensation laws require that employers provide employees with workers' compensation benefits when they are injured during the course of employment. Employees are generally entitled to this compensation even if the accident wasn't the...
When a worker is injured by an on-the-job accident, it is important to timely notify the employer and file a claim for workers’ compensation.Yet that initial filing may not be the end of the matter. Readers may not realize that many workers’ compensation...
Workers' compensation laws were designed to provide certain benefits to employees injured on the job. Benefits typically include such things as medical care, temporary and permanent disability payments, and supplemental job displacement benefits. Your...
