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California work fatalities and injuries on the rise while millions of dollars of enforcement resources are “left sitting on the table”

garrettbrown | July 11, 2017

At the end of two complete years when dozens of fully-funded field compliance positions went empty, reported workplace fatalities and injuries in California are on the rise. California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) has had a monthly average of 34 vacant field enforcement positions since July 2015, which means that more than $10 million in state-authorized funding was left unused. Meanwhile, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest available data shows that 388 workers were fatally injured on the job in California in 2015. On average, that is more than one worker a…

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California work fatalities and injuries on the rise while millions of dollars of enforcement resources are “left sitting on the table”

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