California reports slight increase in workplace deaths

The California Department of Industrial Relations, which runs Cal/OSHA, reported Wednesday (April 22) that the number of Californians who died on the job increased slightly in 2013, but that a review of the past 10 years shows that workplace fatalities remained below the average rate of fatalities prior to 2008, when the last recession began. “The uptick corresponds to California’s higher employment rates and its broad-based economic recovery,” according to the agency. There were 396 fatal injuries on the job...