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According to the most recent statistics, each year in the United States roughly 5,000 construction workers are killed on the job making construction work one of the deadliest professions in the country. While California has seen some efforts in the industry to...
Many people are only vaguely aware that the workers compensation system in California even exists. Often, they only become aware of it after they suffer an injury. It is a little known fact among workers, even union workers, that you can pre-designate who you want to...
The current state of affairs for medical treatment for injured workers is without a doubt rigged in favor of insurers who game the system to deprive workers of needed medical treatment and to push the costs of reasonable medical treatment off onto private health...
Two employers have been cited by Cal/OSHA as a result of their misconduct in continuing work - and exposing workers to cave-in hazards - after stop work orders were issued. The fines were in excess of $300,000. According to construction news, the two...
A California construction worker was crushed by a falling slab of concrete while working at the future site of a FedEx distribution center in Oceanside, California. According to reports, the man was working near a drainage channel when a section of the retaining...
San Jose news reports that on Tuesday, October 6th a young worker was killed in a construction site accident near Bruce Way and Alamaden Road just outside the city limits. The incident remains under investigation by the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office and...
"John Welder" gets something in his eyes while welding. He reports the incident immediately to his employer. There was no wash station, so the employer tells the welder to rinse his eyes with a bottle of water. When that does not solve the problem, John Welder says...
Two men have pleaded not guilty to manslaughter charges stemming from a 2012 San Francisco construction accident death. The construction worker died after falling from a scaffold at a resident under construction in San Francisco's Forest Hill Extension...
ABC 7 News reveals that a cellphone user took a dramatic video of a construction site accident in San Jose, California, and that this video was sent anonymously to Santa Clara county officials in an effort to expose work site dangers. The video shows an explosion...
According to a recent article in the San Jose Mercury News, two California construction executives have been sentenced to prison for their role in causing the death of a day laborer who was buried alive when a concrete retaining wall collapse on top of him. The...
