Cal/OSHA Cites Contractor After Worker Fatally Crushed

A Bay Area contractor has been cited for serious safety violations after a worker was fatally crushed at a San Rafael construction site on Sept. 18. West Coast Land and Development Inc. did not follow regulations when it stacked plywood vertically without securing it, according to the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, or Cal/OSHA, which issued the citations. The accident occurred when two employees of the Concord company were framing and installing a shear wall on the third floor of a house under construction. One worker went to get a sheet of plywood from a stack of 26 ...