The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health fined a real estate investment firm $91,000 after an investigation into the death of a tree-trimmer determined the company did not employ a qualified tree worker as required by law.Joshua Alan Pudsey, 42, died Nov. 2, 2013, when he was stuck by a section of a 60-foot-tall eucalyptus tree he was helping remove from property owned by Three Frogs Inc., a La Mesa firm that flips real estate. Less than two weeks later, the company was forced to stop work for operating without workers' compensation insurance.Pudsey was employed as a gener...
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