Tag: worker
Thousand Oaks nursing home resident arrested on suspicion of killing his roommate
A resident of a Thousand Oaks nursing home has been arrested on suspicion of killing his roommate, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office...
Jury finds stone companies at fault in lawsuit by countertop cutter sick with silicosis
A Los Angeles County jury found businesses that make or distribute engineered stone at fault Wednesday for the suffering of a 34-year-old...
Incurable silicosis cost a countertop cutter his lungs. Are these companies at fault?
From morning to evening, six days a week, Gustavo Reyes Gonzalez spent his days cutting engineered stone, a man-made product that has...
Extreme heat may have increased spread of H5N1 at poultry farm
An H5N1 outbreak that recently infected five poultry workers and 1.8 million chickens in northeast Colorado may have been fueled in...
Bird flu infections spread among workers at Colorado poultry farm
Five poultry workers at a farm in northeast Colorado have been infected by the H5N1 virus, according to Colorado’s department of public...
Doctors said cutting countertops destroyed his lungs. He had to fight for workers' comp
By the time that Dennys Rene Rivas Williams had fallen so ill that he needed new lungs, physicians at Olive View-UCLA Medical...