Many people in California are unaware of the number of risks they may face in their everyday lives. While some can take extra precautions to stay safe, a dangerous accident cannot always be anticipated or avoided. For example, thousands of workers face injury in...
California cities and towns require infrastructure to operate for the benefit of everybody. Of course, the infrastructure requires ongoing maintenance and updates. Construction workers are the backbone of those efforts. It is always tragic when reports of construction...
Construction workers risk their bodies on a daily basis while on-the-job. They are constantly working with dangerous materials as well as heavy machinery, in California or on construction sites in other jurisdictions. The construction workers’ accidents that sometimes...
There are so many factors in life that are out of a person’s control. This is definitely true while at the workplace in California or in any other state. This can be particularly dangerous for construction workers, since one can be so easily injured in construction...
Construction sites are known for having an inherent amount of danger. However, construction workers can face an even higher chance of construction workers’ accidents when working at tall heights. This is common when working on certain types of buildings in California...
Although Hispanic oil and gas workers make up a small percentage of the workforce–7.2 percent in 2011–they suffer a high rate of workplace injuries. In 2011, they suffered more than 25 percent of all such accidents. Pressure to expand oil and gas production, fear of...
As anyone who has ever taken public transportation knows, it can be difficult to keep the buses clean. Even if the vehicles are examined each night, it can still become a major problem. In the Los Angeles area, the Metropolitan Transit Authority has experienced an...
Construction accidents are all too common in California, and recent accidents in the San Francisco Bay area have prompted the California division of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to increase oversight of construction sites. Inspectors will...
Last month, the construction site of the new San Francisco 49ers’ showed itself to be deadly after a mechanic was killed while working in an elevator shaft. The site is at the location of what will be the Levi Stadium, a $1.3 billion project set to open for the 2014...
Los Angeles City Controller Wendy Greuel said this Wednesday that the city pays more for workers on disability and has the worse tracking of overpayments to workers than most other government agencies in California. Greuel, referencing an audit of part of the city’s...