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  • A Diesel Mechanic Dies When he is Crushed Between the Tire and the Cab of a Fire Truck

    Fatality investigation report by CA FACE Program with identified hazards and recommendations to prevent similar incidents.
    California — Case Report — 4/1/2009 — 2 Views

  • Worker Fatality Alert: Laboratory Research Assistant Dies of Burns From a Pyrophoric Chemical

    The California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (CA FACE) conducts research-oriented investigations into workplace fatalities in an effort to develop and disseminate recommendations to prevent similar incidents. This alert highlights a fatality at a biochemistry research laboratory; the worker was using t-butyl lithium, one of a class of chemicals that are spontaneously flammable in air (pyrophoric).
    California — Other — 4/1/2009 — 8 Views

  • Medical Guidelines for Lead-Exposed Workers

    Guide for health care providers; provides comprehensive health-based recommendations based on the latest scientific information for diagnosing, monitoring, and treating workers with acute and/or chronic lead poisoning. Key information is summarized in easy-to-reference tables.
    California — Other — 4/1/2009 — 4 Views

  • Implementing Safer Alternatives to Lithographic Cleanup Solvents to Protect the Health of Workers and the Environment

    Journal article reviews the implementation of potential safer alternatives to hazardous lithographic cleanup solvents to reduce the environmental hazards and health hazards at workplaces.
    California — Journal Article — 3/1/2009 — 5 Views

  • ¡Trabajador Muere En Lava-Carros! - Spanish

    The California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (CA FACE) conducts research-oriented investigations into workplace fatalities in an effort to develop and disseminate recommendations to prevent similar incidents. This fact sheet was produced to warn workers of the potential hazards of working in car washes.
    California — Brochure — 2/24/2009 — 2 Views

  • Laborer Dies When He Falls 35 Feet From a Scaffold After Being Electrocuted

    Fatality investigation report by CA FACE Program with identified hazards and recommendations to prevent similar incidents.
    California — Case Report — 1/27/2009 — 2 Views

  • Alternatives to the Use of Cyfluthrin to Control Thrips Damage in the Orange Growing Industry

    Report that describes California's Occupational Health Branch investigation of a 2005 incident in Kern County that resulted in 27 farmworkers becoming ill due to drift of the pyrethroid pesticide, cyfluthrin. This report describes the currently available growing practices that eliminate the need for cyfluthrin use to control citrus thrips in the orange growing industry.
    California — Technical Report — 1/22/2009 — 2 Views

  • Fumigation and Fall Prevention Checklist

    The California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (CA FACE) conducts research-oriented investigations into workplace fatalities in an effort to develop and disseminate recommendations to prevent similar incidents. Examples of a Employee Fall Protection Kit Materials Checklist and a Fumigation and Fall Protection Field Evaluation Checklist to assist employers in conducting effective fumigation safety training.
    California — Other — 1/14/2009 — 2 Views

  • Worker Fatality Alert: Worker Falls from Roof While Tenting a House

    The California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (CA FACE) conducts research-oriented investigations into workplace fatalities in an effort to develop and disseminate recommendations to prevent similar incidents. This worker fatality alert highlights the need for fall protection in structural fumigation companies.
    California — Other — 1/1/2009 — 0 Views

  • Construction Basics of a Lead Health & Safety Program

    Checklist of protective measures that are important for preventing work-related lead poisoning. The list corresponds to the Cal/OSHA Lead in Construction Standard.
    California — Brochure — 1/1/2009 — 4 Views
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