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One contractor working at the site was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11780972/lone-worker-found-inside-nustar-plant-during-massive-blaze-was-a-contractor\">briefly trapped by the fire\u003c/a>, but escaped unharmed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The explosion of the second tank can be seen at the 12-second mark in a video tweeted by Vallejo Fire:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/VallejoFire/status/1184253063185358848?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report estimated the incident caused $25 million in damage. Workplace safety regulator Cal/OSHA fined NuStar $225 for failing to identify unsafe working conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspections prior to the fire and the investigation following the incident both found that measurement equipment inside the tank where the incident started was not properly grounded. Investigators also found the tank’s floor was coated with material that inhibited grounding and contributed to a build-up of static electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NuStar facility passed an inspection less than a year before the fire occurred, and recommended repairs were completed. But Contra Costa fire investigators said that such fuel storage facilities, often called tank farms, operate without the relatively strict safety regulations governing oil refineries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Capt. Ryan Graham of the Contra Costa Fire District Investigation Unit said most inspections at fuel storage facilities like NuStar’s lack comprehensive safety oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, Graham said, most tank farm inspections are conducted by an industry body, the American Petroleum Institute. But there’s no central authority that oversees safety at storage facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no single agency that oversees everything, there are several agencies that look at their part, but no one that brings it all together,” Graham said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780515\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/NuStar-Flareup-Fire-Crockett.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters work to protect adjacent storage tanks after a flare-up at NuStar Energy's facility in Crockett on Tuesday evening.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1379\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11780515\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/NuStar-Flareup-Fire-Crockett.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/NuStar-Flareup-Fire-Crockett-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/NuStar-Flareup-Fire-Crockett-800x575.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/NuStar-Flareup-Fire-Crockett-1020x733.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/NuStar-Flareup-Fire-Crockett-1200x862.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters work to protect adjacent storage tanks after an explosion touched off a blaze at the NuStar Energy fuel facility near Crockett. \u003ccite>(Contra Costa County Fire Dept./Twitter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Crockett-Carquinez Fire Chief Dean Colombo said the storage industry’s current safety standards are inadequate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This facility has been inspected a number of times and it had an excellent rating,” despite potential electrical hazards, Colombo said. “The industry needs to accept that in their current configuration, the grounding is not safe or adequate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the incident, the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District has appointed an inspector to begin investigating tank farms for code compliance and to determine where industry standards are lacking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials are beginning to explore what steps are necessary to increase oversight to make fuel storage facilities safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It comes down to fire inspectors, code developers and other industry representatives coming together and deciding what that standard is going to be, and who ultimately is going to be the authority,” said Randy Sawyer, the county’s chief environmental health and hazardous materials officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='nustar']Officials were also concerned with the apparent lack of building plans and permits for several tanks at the site, including the two that were destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Contra Costa County Conservation and Development Department said it found no records of plans or permits for an expansion of the site that was completed in 1991.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Gioia, a member of the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors, said homeowners in the county face a tougher permit and inspection process than the one in place for fuel storage facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a reason that we require electrical permits on the construction of property,” Gioia said. “It should be no different with a highly explosive tank. To have an industry self-certify grounding, when we require homeowners get an inspector to make sure they’ve met all the electrical code, seems incongruous. For anyone out there that says, ‘let’s have industry tell us what to do …’ No. We don’t have homeowners tell us how to ground. We inspect. How can we do otherwise in a large tank facility like this?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Federal Glover echoed his concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There needs to be a regulatory body looking at this,” he said. “To not have regulatory guidance in a tank farm, we’re really missing the boat on that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials said further analysis of the report will take several months, and that another public meeting will be held to discuss further action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NuStar facility passed an inspection less than a year before the fire occurred, and recommended repairs were completed. But Contra Costa fire investigators said that such fuel storage facilities, often called tank farms, operate without the relatively strict safety regulations governing oil refineries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Capt. Ryan Graham of the Contra Costa Fire District Investigation Unit said most inspections at fuel storage facilities like NuStar’s lack comprehensive safety oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, Graham said, most tank farm inspections are conducted by an industry body, the American Petroleum Institute. But there’s no central authority that oversees safety at storage facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no single agency that oversees everything, there are several agencies that look at their part, but no one that brings it all together,” Graham said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780515\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/NuStar-Flareup-Fire-Crockett.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters work to protect adjacent storage tanks after a flare-up at NuStar Energy's facility in Crockett on Tuesday evening.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1379\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11780515\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/NuStar-Flareup-Fire-Crockett.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/NuStar-Flareup-Fire-Crockett-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/NuStar-Flareup-Fire-Crockett-800x575.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/NuStar-Flareup-Fire-Crockett-1020x733.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/NuStar-Flareup-Fire-Crockett-1200x862.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters work to protect adjacent storage tanks after an explosion touched off a blaze at the NuStar Energy fuel facility near Crockett. \u003ccite>(Contra Costa County Fire Dept./Twitter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Crockett-Carquinez Fire Chief Dean Colombo said the storage industry’s current safety standards are inadequate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This facility has been inspected a number of times and it had an excellent rating,” despite potential electrical hazards, Colombo said. “The industry needs to accept that in their current configuration, the grounding is not safe or adequate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the incident, the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District has appointed an inspector to begin investigating tank farms for code compliance and to determine where industry standards are lacking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials are beginning to explore what steps are necessary to increase oversight to make fuel storage facilities safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It comes down to fire inspectors, code developers and other industry representatives coming together and deciding what that standard is going to be, and who ultimately is going to be the authority,” said Randy Sawyer, the county’s chief environmental health and hazardous materials officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Officials were also concerned with the apparent lack of building plans and permits for several tanks at the site, including the two that were destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Contra Costa County Conservation and Development Department said it found no records of plans or permits for an expansion of the site that was completed in 1991.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Gioia, a member of the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors, said homeowners in the county face a tougher permit and inspection process than the one in place for fuel storage facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a reason that we require electrical permits on the construction of property,” Gioia said. “It should be no different with a highly explosive tank. To have an industry self-certify grounding, when we require homeowners get an inspector to make sure they’ve met all the electrical code, seems incongruous. For anyone out there that says, ‘let’s have industry tell us what to do …’ No. We don’t have homeowners tell us how to ground. We inspect. How can we do otherwise in a large tank facility like this?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Federal Glover echoed his concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There needs to be a regulatory body looking at this,” he said. “To not have regulatory guidance in a tank farm, we’re really missing the boat on that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials said further analysis of the report will take several months, and that another public meeting will be held to discuss further action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>California officials gave a nod to Kaiser Permanente’s reputation for efficiency when they \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Letter-of-Intent-with-Kaiser.pdf?_gl=1*18hxzr7*_ga*NzI4NDMzNTEuMTU4MjA0NjY1NQ..\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently selected\u003c/a> it to help speed vaccine rollout. But a review of worker safety citations shows Kaiser has had its own pandemic troubles, failing to adequately protect its employees early on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser Permanente has on multiple occasions failed to provide hospital employees the gear or training needed to protect them from COVID-19, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/COVID19citations.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to 12 citations\u003c/a> issued by California’s enforcer of workplace safety laws, Cal/OSHA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has issued more citations against Kaiser than any other health care employer in California, fining it almost $500,000. In addition, Santa Clara County has separately penalized the hospital for not immediately reporting an outbreak in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser is appealing all 12 of the state’s citations, as well as the county-issued fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s misleading to interpret these citations to signal any ongoing serious infractions of current public health guidelines at Kaiser Permanente,” Marc Brown, a Kaiser spokesman, said in an emailed statement. “In fact, these citations stem mainly from allegations much earlier in the pandemic, as health care systems including ours grappled with national shortages and evolving public health guidance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser’s medical centers, he added, are a safe place to work and receive care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2020/10/kaiser-cal-osha-citation-failing-to-treat-covid-airborne/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first reported\u003c/a> an incoming wave of citations for Kaiser in October, following the first fine issued to its psychiatric hospital in Santa Clara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state imposed the largest penalty, $87,500, on Kaiser’s San Leandro Medical Center for not immediately reporting to Cal/OSHA when one employee was hospitalized in May and for not limiting the reuse of N95 respirators, among several other violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/9b5ce597-4fd5-43f5-bce6-57f47e20af6d?src=embed\" title=\"kaiser citations\" width=\"800\" height=\"712\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA began citing Kaiser facilities in October, months after receiving complaints. The short-staffed agency has been inundated with COVID-related complaints. Between February and September of last year, it conducted \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2020/10/cal-osha-response-covid-complaints/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on-site inspections for only 5%\u003c/a> of almost 7,000 pandemic complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost half of Cal/OSHA’s citations to hospitals are directed at Kaiser. But it’s difficult to know for sure why Kaiser has been disciplined the most, said Laura Stock, director of the Labor Occupational Health Program at UC Berkeley. It could be its practices, but also its size, and its employees may be more willing to speak up about hazards, Stock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there is a citation it’s probably because someone filed an OSHA complaint,” Stock said. “Kaiser is a unionized workplace and there are workers who are educated on these issues and really on top of these things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One violation labeled as “serious” in Cal/OSHA’s citation to Oakland Medical Center, for example, found that the hospital did not provide employees from an oncology unit with N95 respirators when they entered an area with patients confirmed or suspected of having COVID-19. The hospital also failed to ensure each employee passed a “fit test” to ensure employees’ respirators fit properly, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/coronavirus/citations/11.06.2020_Kaiser-Permanente-Oakland-Medical-Center_1474630.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the citation.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA also found that Kaiser’s Redwood City Medical Center did not inform and train employees that surgical masks do not protect against inhalation of infectious aerosols — N95 respirators are needed instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser’s San Jose Medical Center failed to notify employees “with significant exposures in a reasonable timeframe” and didn’t provide a medical evaluation to those exposed, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/coronavirus/citations/11.23.2020-Kaiser-Foundation-Hospital-DBA-Kaiser-San-Jose-Medical-Center_1476073.pdf\">according to the citation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a later and separate incident, Santa Clara County fined the San Jose hospital $43,000 for not immediately reporting an outbreak in its emergency department on Christmas Day. \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/01/07/kaiser-san-jose-fined-43000-as-investigation-into-christmas-costume-covid-outbreak-continues/\">That incident\u003c/a> has been linked to an employee dressed in an air-powered inflatable tree costume, who was COVID positive but unaware of that. Kaiser is appealing that fine, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"kaiser, kaiser permanente, health\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Federal health guidance about COVID-19 safety has evolved throughout the pandemic. Yet California already had strict workplace safety rules in place for hospitals and other health settings that should have protected employees from the very beginning, even when little was known about the virus, experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In spring 2009, California adopted the Aerosol Transmissible Diseases (ATD) standard. Under development for several years, it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/title8/5199.html\">unanimously approved\u003c/a> by the Cal/OSHA Standards Board soon after the first cases of the H1N1 virus were detected in the state. According to this \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/title8/5199.html\">ATD standard\u003c/a>, any novel or unknown pathogen is to be handled as if it could be transmitted by aerosols until proven otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is the only state in the country with this standard. And experts say this standard has helped Cal/OSHA hold health employers accountable during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s aerosol standard requires employers to provide personal protective equipment that protects against aerosols, train employees about this type of transmission and notify them of any possible exposure. This state standard went beyond early pandemic guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which didn’t formally acknowledge the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/scientific-brief-sars-cov-2.html\">airborne transmission\u003c/a> of coronavirus until October. For months, the federal agency focused on droplet transmission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Special protection is required to protect against viruses that can transmit via smaller aerosolized particles. For example, in Cal/OSHA’s citation to Kaiser San Francisco, the agency notes that the hospital did not require employees to use \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/images/hcp/N95-infographic-What-Are-APR-508.png?noicon\">powered air-purifying respirators\u003c/a> during “high hazard” procedures that generate aerosols, like intubations. According to the ATD standard, N95 masks are not enough protection for those types of procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the San Leandro location, employees who were given powered air-purifying respirators were handed defective units held together by tape, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/coronavirus/citations/01.04.2021-Kaiser-Foundation-KaiserPermanenteSanLeandro_1479549.pdf\">according to the citation\u003c/a>. That same hospital also failed to investigate exposure incidents between May and August, the citation reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout most of last year, nurses and other health workers organized rallies and protests demanding more protection from Kaiser and other hospitals. Amy Arlund, an intensive care nurse at Kaiser Fresno Medical Center and member of the California Nurses Association, said nurses aren’t as interested in fines as they are in enforcement and improvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She alleged that at her hospital, for example, when their battery-operated respirators break down, it’s hard to get replacements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of nurses are carrying around their own rolls of duct tape to put these things back together when they’re falling apart,” Arlund told CalMatters in November. “We use what we have way beyond its usage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employees at Kaiser Fresno have filed several complaints. Arlund said Cal/OSHA inspectors have visited her hospital, but as of Friday, no citations had been issued against Kaiser’s Fresno hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters COVID-19 coverage, translation and distribution is supported by generous grants from the Blue Shield of California Foundation, the California Wellness Foundation and the California Health Care Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]B[/dropcap]y the time Merced County public health officials were able to track down accurate information about a COVID-19 outbreak at a local Foster Farms plant last year, seven workers were already dead, and more would die in the following weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In mid-August, when the California Department of Public Health requested the number of positive cases, hospitalizations and deaths that were tied to the growing outbreak at the company’s plant in Livingston, Merced County’s supervising epidemiologist Kristynn Sullivan passed along the data, with the disclaimer that officials had just learned of five previously unreported deaths on Aug. 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They [Foster Farms] did not inform us of any hospitalizations prior to 8/14, and as you know they did not inform the additional five fatalities until 8/14,” Sullivan wrote in an \u003ca href=\"https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20471636-sullivan-additional-five\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aug. 20 email\u003c/a>.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dr. Rebecca Nanyonjo-Kemp, Merced County public health director\"]‘This is one of the largest occupational fatalities experienced during COVID-19 in the state of California.’[/pullquote]Minutes later, Dr. Salvador Sandoval, the county’s health officer, sent a \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20471634-sandoval-eight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20471634-sandoval-eight\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">follow-up \u003c/a>email saying he’d just been informed by a union representative that another worker at the plant had died the night before: “Foster Farms hasn’t let us know about him. So now we have 8 deaths.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In newly released emails from that time period, Merced County health officials repeatedly expressed skepticism about the outbreak information they were receiving from the poultry company, saying they believed the company hadn’t tested its entire workforce and was not providing reliable data. Ultimately, nearly 400 workers were sickened in connection to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833224/3-deaths-more-than-200-infections-in-coronavirus-outbreak-at-foster-farms-plant-livingston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Livingston outbreak, \u003c/a>nine of whom died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The information comes to light as Foster Farms argues, in an\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11852681/judge-orders-foster-farms-to-comply-with-covid-19-safety-rules\"> ongoing court case,\u003c/a> that further oversight of the company’s efforts to protect its workers from COVID-19 is unwarranted. It also arises amid recently confirmed reports of another major outbreak at one of the company’s plants in Fresno, where at least 193 workers were infected late last year. Two of those workers died from complications related to COVID-19 in January, according to a California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) spokesperson, raising that facility’s COVID-19 death toll to at least five.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company argues it has aggressively implemented safety and testing protocols, and says it recently began administering the Moderna vaccine to 1,000 workers at the Fresno plant in partnership with the county’s public health department and Vons Pharmacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster Farms did not respond to questions about the emails. An earlier statement from the company said it is committed to the health and welfare of its employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The emails, obtained by KQED through public records requests, show a county health department struggling to coerce Foster Farms to fulfill its obligations under California law and report the deaths of its employees to Cal/OSHA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one of the obtained emails, sent in July, a county health official urged the company to report a recent fatality to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have been trying to reach out to you about this matter. It is required that this information be shared with Cal OSHA within 24 hours of the death,” county Epidemiologist Sydney Loewen \u003ca href=\"https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20471631-first-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote in an email to the company\u003c/a> on July 22. “Please reach out to us ASAP. If we do not hear from you we will need to report the death ourselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two weeks later, on Aug. 5, a Merced County Department of Public Health \u003ca href=\"https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20469518-aug-5-directive-split\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">directive\u003c/a> instructed Foster Farms to implement a new COVID-19 testing protocol and report any hospitalizations to the county. The following week, after consulting state health officials, it asked the company to also report any known deaths. A day later, on Aug. 14, the company reported five more deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show that prior to Aug. 14, county health officials had been made aware of some deaths tied to the outbreak, but not all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Merced County Public Health Director Dr. Rebecca Nanyonjo-Kemp later \u003ca href=\"https://mercedcountyca.new.swagit.com/videos/75731\">told the county Board of Supervisors\u003c/a> that the number of known COVID-19 deaths connected to the Livingston plant more than tripled that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"foster-farms\"]“This is one of the largest occupational fatalities experienced during COVID-19 in the state of California,” she said at the mid-September meeting. “This is not \u003cem>not\u003c/em> a big deal. This is a significantly large deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear if, or when, the company reported the deaths and hospitalizations of its employees to Cal/OSHA. The agency provided the number of deaths and hospitalizations reported last year in connection to Foster Farms’ facilities in the region. KQED has requested and is waiting for clarification on which reports are specific to the Livingston plant. Failure to immediately report a workplace fatality, serious injury or illness to Cal/OSHA is punishable by a fine of at least $5,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has recently come under fire from labor advocates and state legislators who say California’s system, which relies on employers self-reporting COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations to regulators, has led to severe undercounting and inadequate data about outbreaks tied to workplaces. In an interview with \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/coronavirus/article248847034.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Sacramento Bee\u003c/a> this week, a Foster Farms spokesman defended the company’s record, insisting it had reported to the state at least 21 COVID-19 deaths tied to its California facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA has multiple open inspections at Foster Farms’ California facilities and has yet to issue any violations or penalties in connection with the outbreaks at the plants in Livingston or Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth] “The emails demonstrate that it was a challenge to get accurate workplace data from the employer,” Ana Padilla, executive director of UC Merced’s Community and Labor Center, said. “We can’t wait for there to already be a massive workplace outbreak before any reporting happens. Workers deserve to know if their lives are at risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap] preliminary injunction issued by a Merced County judge on Jan. 29 requires Foster Farms to continue complying with 20 COVID-19 workplace safety rules, the latest development in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11851959/lawsuit-foster-farms-plant-operating-in-naked-disregard-of-covid-19-safety-rules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lawsuit\u003c/a> filed against the company in December by the United Farm Workers union and two Livingston plant employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>Foster Farms’ attorneys have argued the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11852681/judge-orders-foster-farms-to-comply-with-covid-19-safety-rules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">court order\u003c/a> is an unnecessary overstep because Merced County’s health department and Cal/OSHA already exercise oversight of the plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But emails exchanged between late July and August show county health officials repeatedly expressed distrust of the information Foster Farms has reported about worker fatalities and infections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State and county health officials involved in the July and August email exchanges did not respond to requests for comment. A CDPH spokesperson said the agency communicated at the time with local public health officials in all other counties where there are Foster Farms plants, “to offer technical assistance for workers protection and current or future outbreaks at other facilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Merced County spokesperson said the health department did not have anyone available to provide a response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that these documents show pretty clearly that the county itself is concerned about their lack of transparency and the full truth of what they’re hearing, and the fact that they didn’t bother to report these deaths, is astonishing,” said Monique Alonso, one of the attorneys representing UFW in the civil suit against the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of this week, 560 workers at the plant who were represented by the UFW voted to decertify the union. Elizabeth Strater, a UFW spokeswoman, said its civil case against the poultry company “will proceed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11858934\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47071_IMG_7323-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11858934\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47071_IMG_7323-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47071_IMG_7323-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47071_IMG_7323-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47071_IMG_7323-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47071_IMG_7323-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47071_IMG_7323-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A truck rolls into Foster Farms’ S. Cherry Avenue facility in Fresno on Dec. 9, 2020. A major outbreak at the plant late last year infected at least 193 people. A Cal/OSHA spokesman recently confirmed two more employees of the facility have died from complications due to COVID-19 infection. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 21, the day after county health officials learned of the eight total deaths, Foster Farms sent an email reporting that five workers at its Livingston plant had so far tested positive, of the 1,449 employees that it tested. But it said over a third of those test results were still pending. Robert O’Connor, the company’s veterinarian and senior vice president of technical operations, wrote to county health officials that “the prevalence detected is quite low.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several days later, Dr. Sandoval, Merced County’s health officer, \u003ca href=\"https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20471629-suspect-chart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote\u003c/a> to colleagues, “These numbers seem suspect. I will try to find out if they are only checking regular employees, and not temporary workers, which I suspect.” He added, “The positivity rate is also way below our testing positivity rate of 12.1% overall in the county.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster Farms has argued in court filings that, despite outbreaks tied to its workplaces, the testing positivity rate of its workers has been lower than the surrounding community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same day, while relaying to state officials the number of hospitalizations that Foster Farms had reported during a two-week period, Sullivan, the county’s epidemiologist, \u003ca href=\"https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20471637-sullivan-trust-the-least\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote\u003c/a>, “These are the numbers I trust the least. Because I don’t believe they have a consistent way of gathering this information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The emails show California’s public health department discussed reaching out to other local health departments where Foster Farms operates since it seemed to be difficult for county health officials to get information directly from the company.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Stephen Knight, executive director of Worksafe\"]‘This is pretty basic. We are trying to manage an infectious disease epidemic and the state public health department and the counties need good information to do that.’[/pullquote]“We’re thinking about putting out some messaging from CDPH to counties that have a FF facility in or around them to have them ask about employment at FF during case interviews,” Dr. Christina Armatas, a CDPH public health officer, wrote to county health officials on Aug. 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is darkly remarkable to see health officials discussing screening the public for Foster Farms employment as a risk factor in case interviews,” UFW spokeswoman Strater said. “This also shows that no outbreak is purely just a worksite issue — an outbreak is a public health issue that affects all of us. Workers and their communities deserve better. Essential should not mean sacrificial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Merced County personnel also requested that Foster Farms apply the more thorough testing efforts now being administered in Livingston to the company’s other plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are creating a Statewide standard for managing COVID-19 outbreaks in food processing facilities,” Merced County Environmental Health Division Director Vicki Jones wrote to the company on Aug. 13. “It would be very beneficial and appreciated if you could share these protocols with the other Foster Farms processing facilities in California, as I understand they are now beginning to deal with similar challenges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new law, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB685\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AB 685\u003c/a>, which went into effect on Jan. 1, requires California employers to notify local health departments of COVID-19 outbreaks, positive cases and fatalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We learned more and more, the longer that we were involved in that bill, the need for a clear, statewide reporting standard and a clear, publicly available database of where outbreaks were occurring. And we didn’t have either one of those,” said Mitch Steiger, legislative advocate with the California Labor Federation, which co-sponsored and helped develop the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new law also requires local health departments to send the state all employer-reported COVID-19 outbreak data. To date, CDHP has \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/COVID-19-Outbreak-Data.aspx\">not posted any on its site\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The obligation to report to local health departments began recently and we will be providing information soon,” a CDPH spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is pretty basic. We are trying to manage an infectious disease epidemic and the state public health department and the counties need good information to do that,” said Stephen Knight, executive director of Worksafe, an advocacy group. “This data needs to be collected and reported properly. 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Workers deserve to know if their lives are at risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">A\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp> preliminary injunction issued by a Merced County judge on Jan. 29 requires Foster Farms to continue complying with 20 COVID-19 workplace safety rules, the latest development in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11851959/lawsuit-foster-farms-plant-operating-in-naked-disregard-of-covid-19-safety-rules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lawsuit\u003c/a> filed against the company in December by the United Farm Workers union and two Livingston plant employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>Foster Farms’ attorneys have argued the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11852681/judge-orders-foster-farms-to-comply-with-covid-19-safety-rules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">court order\u003c/a> is an unnecessary overstep because Merced County’s health department and Cal/OSHA already exercise oversight of the plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But emails exchanged between late July and August show county health officials repeatedly expressed distrust of the information Foster Farms has reported about worker fatalities and infections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State and county health officials involved in the July and August email exchanges did not respond to requests for comment. A CDPH spokesperson said the agency communicated at the time with local public health officials in all other counties where there are Foster Farms plants, “to offer technical assistance for workers protection and current or future outbreaks at other facilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Merced County spokesperson said the health department did not have anyone available to provide a response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that these documents show pretty clearly that the county itself is concerned about their lack of transparency and the full truth of what they’re hearing, and the fact that they didn’t bother to report these deaths, is astonishing,” said Monique Alonso, one of the attorneys representing UFW in the civil suit against the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of this week, 560 workers at the plant who were represented by the UFW voted to decertify the union. 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Cherry Avenue facility in Fresno on Dec. 9, 2020. A major outbreak at the plant late last year infected at least 193 people. A Cal/OSHA spokesman recently confirmed two more employees of the facility have died from complications due to COVID-19 infection. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 21, the day after county health officials learned of the eight total deaths, Foster Farms sent an email reporting that five workers at its Livingston plant had so far tested positive, of the 1,449 employees that it tested. But it said over a third of those test results were still pending. Robert O’Connor, the company’s veterinarian and senior vice president of technical operations, wrote to county health officials that “the prevalence detected is quite low.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several days later, Dr. Sandoval, Merced County’s health officer, \u003ca href=\"https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20471629-suspect-chart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote\u003c/a> to colleagues, “These numbers seem suspect. 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"content": "\u003cp>The board that oversees California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health, known as Cal/OSHA, voted unanimously late Thursday in favor of new rules that expand how far California employers must go to protect employees from COVID-19 at work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The temporary emergency standard requires employers to create a COVID-19 prevention program, investigate, track and respond to COVID-19 cases in the workplace and provide free testing to workers in cases of outbreaks, among many other requirements. The state's Office of Administrative Law now has 10 working days to review and approve the rules. If approved, the rules would go into effect immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current state workplace safety regulations require employers to keep workers safe from hazards – but they don't specifically mention COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"David Thomas, Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board chair\"]'We’ve got to lead at some point ... I don’t want to have this on my conscience that we didn’t do something when we actually had the chance to do it.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the new rules, employers would be required to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Identify and correct COVID-19 hazards\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ensure all employees are separated from others by at least 6 feet, except where not possible\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Provide face coverings and ensure employees wear them\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Install partitions to reduce aerosol transmission where distancing isn't possible\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Investigate and respond to workplace COVID-19 cases\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Report information about cases to the local health department whenever required by law\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ensure workers who become infected don't come to work until certain criteria are met\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Provide no-cost COVID-19 testing to all employees who may have been exposed, in case of outbreak. 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They have problems with rats and cockroaches. And now with this virus, with this pandemic, COVID-19, social distancing is nonexistent. There is no soap. There is no distancing,” he said through an interpreter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comucha King, who said she worked in room service at a five-star hotel, said she sometimes had so many breakfast deliveries to make in the morning that she didn’t have time to sanitize the delivery cart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It doesn’t matter how much they clean the guest areas if they don’t clean the worker area,\" she said. \"The virus doesn’t care if you are a guest or a worker.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King also said she was concerned because guests sometimes open the door to their rooms without wearing a mask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants who opposed the standard argued it creates an unrealistic and infeasible burden on California employers. Some said certain elements of the standard go beyond the agency’s authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have outstanding concerns,” Robert Moutrie of the California Chamber of Commerce told the board in reference to one section of the standard that describes how employers must send workers with COVID-19 home, while continuing to pay them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not believe that such wage issues and paid time off issues, frankly, fall under Cal/OSHA’s jurisdiction,” Moutrie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/oshsb/documents/COVID-19-Prevention-Emergency-txtbrdconsider.pdf\">draft text\u003c/a> of the rules presented to the board spanned 21 pages, and included mandates that employers provide workers with information about COVID-19 benefits they may be entitled to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After listening to the public comments that started at 10 a.m. and didn’t conclude until after dark, Board Chair David Thomas told fellow board members that delaying a decision on the rules wouldn’t help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to have this on my conscience that we didn’t do something when we actually had the chance to do it,” Thomas said, pointing to a recent uptick in COVID-19 fatalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing the worst of this right now. It’s not going to get anything but worse. We’ve got to lead at some point,\" he said. \"Nobody else is doing it... We know what we need to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'Simply Not Economically Viable'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Since the pandemic began, Cal/OSHA has issued guidance on how employers can protect workers from COVID-19 in different industries. But some say the agency has been weak on enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maggie Robbins, occupational and environmental health specialist for Worksafe, the labor group that submitted a petition to Cal/OSHA in May calling for the emergency rules, said specific rules would make it easier for the agency to enforce protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s much easier for a policeman to say 'You exceeded 30 miles an hour, see that sign that says the speed limit is 30 miles an hour?' It’s a little harder if what the sign says is ‘Go as fast as is safe for this roadway,” Robbins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes it clearer what the expectations on the employer are,” Robbins said. “And it will therefore make it easier for them to make citations and take less time for them to do that. The other thing is, by having those standards, it does set up more of an expectation on employers, that, ‘Oh, maybe I really need to pay attention to this more than I might have been otherwise because I was distracted by the other realities of keeping my business open during a pandemic.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many employers argue they are already following the guidelines while struggling to adjust to a constantly evolving health crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s clear many on the labor side have complaints about non-compliant, unsafe workplaces,\" said Guadalupe Sandoval of the California Farm Labor Contractors Association. \"It is also clear the proposed emergency regulation is being rushed through despite several provisions of questionable legality and enforceability. This includes compensation issues for paid sick leave in the proposed rule which are clearly outside the purview of Cal/OSHA. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants who opposed the standard argued it creates an unrealistic and infeasible burden on California employers. Some said certain elements of the standard go beyond the agency’s authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have outstanding concerns,” Robert Moutrie of the California Chamber of Commerce told the board in reference to one section of the standard that describes how employers must send workers with COVID-19 home, while continuing to pay them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not believe that such wage issues and paid time off issues, frankly, fall under Cal/OSHA’s jurisdiction,” Moutrie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/oshsb/documents/COVID-19-Prevention-Emergency-txtbrdconsider.pdf\">draft text\u003c/a> of the rules presented to the board spanned 21 pages, and included mandates that employers provide workers with information about COVID-19 benefits they may be entitled to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After listening to the public comments that started at 10 a.m. and didn’t conclude until after dark, Board Chair David Thomas told fellow board members that delaying a decision on the rules wouldn’t help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to have this on my conscience that we didn’t do something when we actually had the chance to do it,” Thomas said, pointing to a recent uptick in COVID-19 fatalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing the worst of this right now. It’s not going to get anything but worse. We’ve got to lead at some point,\" he said. \"Nobody else is doing it... We know what we need to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'Simply Not Economically Viable'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Since the pandemic began, Cal/OSHA has issued guidance on how employers can protect workers from COVID-19 in different industries. But some say the agency has been weak on enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maggie Robbins, occupational and environmental health specialist for Worksafe, the labor group that submitted a petition to Cal/OSHA in May calling for the emergency rules, said specific rules would make it easier for the agency to enforce protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s much easier for a policeman to say 'You exceeded 30 miles an hour, see that sign that says the speed limit is 30 miles an hour?' It’s a little harder if what the sign says is ‘Go as fast as is safe for this roadway,” Robbins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes it clearer what the expectations on the employer are,” Robbins said. “And it will therefore make it easier for them to make citations and take less time for them to do that. The other thing is, by having those standards, it does set up more of an expectation on employers, that, ‘Oh, maybe I really need to pay attention to this more than I might have been otherwise because I was distracted by the other realities of keeping my business open during a pandemic.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many employers argue they are already following the guidelines while struggling to adjust to a constantly evolving health crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s clear many on the labor side have complaints about non-compliant, unsafe workplaces,\" said Guadalupe Sandoval of the California Farm Labor Contractors Association. \"It is also clear the proposed emergency regulation is being rushed through despite several provisions of questionable legality and enforceability. This includes compensation issues for paid sick leave in the proposed rule which are clearly outside the purview of Cal/OSHA. Cal/OSHA should simply enforce the applicable workplace safety regulations, primarily Section 3203, Injury & Illness Prevention Program requirements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the many comments delivered to the board on Thursday, Sandoval said, “[Cal/OSHA] should start with the workplaces that employ the individuals who were complaining today. There seems to be plenty there to keep Cal OSHA’s inspectors busy for quite a while.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The emergency standard also includes requirements for employer-provided housing and transportation, which would impact farmers and other agricultural employers who bring foreign guest workers to California through the H-2A visa program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Rogers, general manager and co-founder of AgSocio, a farm labor contracting business in the Salinas Valley, said at the meeting that those requirements would threaten his company’s ability to survive and would not meaningfully improve worker protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is many of us in agriculture utilize 15-passenger vans,” Rogers said, citing one example. “But the way that the standard is written, 'three feet between all passengers,' you’re talking about a van with a driver and three people in it... which is simply not economically viable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The unidentified contractor was hurt last Wednesday after he was struck in the face and head by an object during a fireline assignment, according to a preliminary Cal Fire review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That report, known as a Blue Sheet, says the Diamond Fire crew was assigned to work on Division E of the fire, located in the southeast portion of the blaze, northwest of Calistoga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Sulffridge, general manager at Diamond Fire, said the worker was mopping up — a firefighting term used to describe work like extinguishing or removing burning material near a control line — when the injury took place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The firefighter pulled on a limb attached to a small log when the log turned, forcing the limb to flip up and hit the worker in the face, knocking him over. He suffered moderate injuries to his face and head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The firefighter was treated near the site of the injury, driven to a hospital in Santa Rosa and released a day later, according to Sulffridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Diamond Fire crew was part of a contingent of out-of-state firefighters brought in through coordination from the California Office of Emergency Services and the U.S. Forest Service, according to Cal Fire spokesman Scott McLean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 27 a firefighter identified as 29-year-old Titan Cheatham, who was hired by the Ashland-Oregon based firm Pacific Oasis, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11783857/firefighter-injured-in-kincade-blaze-was-working-for-a-private-company\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seriously injured\u003c/a> in the Kincade Fire. Cheatham’s identity was first revealed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/post/firefighter-ashland-contractor-injured-kincade-fire#stream/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jefferson Public Radio\u003c/a> and later confirmed by a Pacific Oasis official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State workplace regulators said Cheatham was operating a chainsaw when the device’s fuel cap came off and splashed his pants with fuel, which then ignited from a nearby spot fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheatham received second- and third-degree burns to his legs and was taken to UC Davis Medical Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This accident resulted in severe burns to Titan’s lower legs,” said Steve Dodds, who co-owns Pacific Oasis, in an email. “Our main concerns remain his physical and mental condition and his recovery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11783857 hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Firefighters-battle-barn-fire-kincade-fire-1020x665.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pacific Oasis crew was hired under an interagency agreement administered by the Oregon Department of Forestry and the U.S. Forest Service, according to Dodds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wills, with California Professional Firefighters, said the injuries raise worries about the potential of more contract firefighters being used in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would be concerned about any increase in deployment of private firefighting crews in California,” Wills said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When private crews are sent into California from other states, there is no guarantee they have the proper training, experience and safety standards required of California’s paid and volunteer firefighters,” he said. “This is especially dangerous given the number and intensity of wildfires in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dodds, of Pacific Oasis, said his company has a long history of working for state agencies, the federal government and private landowners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over the past 15 years we have provided wildland firefighting resources on almost every notable wildland fire incident in the western United States. Hundreds of wildland fires,” Dodds said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11784042 hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/kincade-fire-inmates-1920-1038x576.jpg\"]The third injury involved an inmate firefighter working through a program run by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), according to Frank Polizzi, a spokesman for California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA). Cal/OSHA is investigating all three incidents, Polizzi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prisoner was cutting a fireline in the Healdsburg area on Oct. 28 when he or she was struck by a rolling dead tree and suffered a broken ankle. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#anchor\">\u003cem>This story was updated May 14, 2021\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A series of security lapses at Stanford Hospital allowed a patient in a locked psychiatric unit to attack a 70-year-old nurse earlier this year, state workplace regulators said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11734674/cal-osha-launches-probe-into-attack-that-injured-two-stanford-hospital-psych-nurses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">assault\u003c/a> occurred on March 12 in a part of the Palo Alto facility that lacked security, despite an order calling for the patient to be accompanied by guards, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Stanford-Health-Care-1389056-Narrative-Summary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">investigation\u003c/a> by the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Catherine Kennedy, a registered nurse who had worked at the hospital for 17 years and had 30 years of psychiatry experience, suffered serious injuries from the attack. She told police that the patient threw her to the ground and beat her, punching her up to 20 times on her head and body, according to court documents. Her right knee was \"shattered\" and her lower leg fractured. Another nurse, who tried to separate the victim and the agitated patient, was also injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Rachel Odes, nurse at John George Psychiatric Hospital\"]'This type of serious injury should never be part of the job.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA issued an $18,000 citation to the hospital earlier this month for failing to effectively implement its workplace violence prevention plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This type of serious injury should never be part of the job,\" said Rachel Odes, a staff nurse at John George Psychiatric Hospital in San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the night of the attack, there were four nurses on duty at the hospital's psychiatric unit to handle 14 patients. The attack took place during a shift change, when visitors were allowed in the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was chaotic and disorganized with visitor(s) congregating around the nurses station,\" the Cal/OSHA summary states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 36-year-old patient involved in the attack had checked himself into the hospital two days earlier. Although it's unclear what specific mental illness he was suffering from at the time, there was an order in place that he be accompanied by security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Due to staff shortage the security supervisor needed to pull the security officer assigned to the patient,\" the summary stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the visitors on the night of the attack was the patient's girlfriend. When she had visited him previously at the hospital, he became agitated, hospital staff told state inspectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One nurse, Sampaguita Pino, told a Palo Alto police investigator that the patient had been \"loud, agitated, and intrusive all day,\" according to the incident's police report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That night, the patient began pacing back and forth and took off his shirt. His behavior prompted one nurse to retreat into the nurses station, where patients are not allowed. The patient then walked into the station and confronted another nurse. A third nurse then pulled a panic alarm and called security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy, who was hours into her overnight shift at the time, told police that the patient was \"not directable, irritable, had been wandering in rooms, was disorganized.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy began administering medication to the patient to calm him down and gave him his shirt back and told him to put it back on. Instead he \"threw me to the ground, tackled me and then beat me,\" she told police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He allegedly lunged at Kennedy with a \"scissor kick\" and began striking her, according to the investigation. Pino tried to restrain the patient but was struck as well, at which point security officers and other staff entered the unit and restrained the patient. Kennedy was taken to the emergency room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A security guard later told a police investigator that \"security made no attempt to call the police, but that the family was advised they could call the police on their own.\" The attending psychiatric physician told the investigator that police were not called \"because he did not consider this a crime due to the patient's me(n)tal condition at the time of the assault.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OHSA says the hospital made several mistakes the night of the attack, which included failing to ensure that staff were documenting and communicating information to each other between shifts \"regarding conditions that may increase the potential for workplace violence incidents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State workplace regulators also said there was not adequate security staffing in the psychiatric unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The security staff were not available due to other assignments preventing them from immediately responding to an alarm,\" Cal/OHSA's report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"stanford-hospital\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office charged the patient with felony battery, causing serious bodily injury and misdemeanor battery at a hospital. The patient pleaded not guilty in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A judge is expected to set a date for a preliminary hearing in the case next Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The patient's lawyer, Trisha Luciano, declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the hospital is fighting the state penalty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The safety of our patients and staff is the highest priority at Stanford Health Care. We are proceeding to file a formal appeal while working with Cal/OSHA to schedule an information conference during which we will review the circumstances to resolve this issue,\" said Stanford Health Care spokeswoman Julie Greicius in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attack came several weeks before some 4,000 unionized nurses employed at the facility and at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital voted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11739404/nurses-at-stanford-and-lucile-packard-hospitals-vote-overwhelmingly-to-authorize-strike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">authorize a strike\u003c/a>. That walkout was later \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11743833/tentative-deal-reached-to-avert-nurses-strike-at-stanford-and-lucile-packard-hospitals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">averted\u003c/a> by a deal that included wage increases, bonuses and improved workplace violence prevention plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A top official at the nurses union, the Committee for Recognition of Nursing Achievement (CRONA), said the Cal/OSHA report reveals a number of workplace safety deficiencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These include findings that Stanford did not maintain sufficient numbers of security staff in the psychiatric unit and that security staff were not available due to other assignments, and thus were not able to respond immediately to an alarm,\" said CRONA Vice President Kathy Stormberg in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The state also found that Stanford's employee communication procedures regarding questions of workplace violence were lacking, a concern previously raised by CRONA,\" Stormberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Odes, the expert in hospital work safety, said Cal/OSHA's findings point to the importance of safe staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nursing staff did not have adequate support at the time of the incident,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Odes also pointed to the victim's age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As the nursing workforce ages, it is going to be increasingly important for health organizations to proactively prevent injuries on the job,\" she said. \"Even a very experienced provider can be victimized in the wrong situation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"anchor\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>Editor's note: We have updated this story to remove the name of the then-patient who was charged with attacking a nurse at Stanford Hospital after checking himself in for treatment. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is no longer being updated. Please visit \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/wildfires\">kqed.org/wildfires\u003c/a> for our latest wildfire-related stories and guides. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smoke from the deadly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11705243/california-wildfires-what-you-need-to-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Camp Fire\u003c/a> in Butte County continues to pour into the Bay Area, with a Spare the Air Alert extended until at least the end of the week. 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The\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health\u003c/a> tests and approves the filters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The filters are made of fine strands of plastic blown onto a screen. This creates a complex netting. Manufacturers then take these filters of fine plastic fibers and form them into masks, said Jeffrey Birkner, vice president of technical services at \u003ca href=\"https://www.moldex.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moldex-Metric\u003c/a>, a company that makes respirator masks mostly for industrial use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The netting creates a physical barrier, catching particles as they try to fly through. The N95 and P100 respirators can catch particles as small as 0.3 microns wide — particles far too small for the eye to see. For reference, \u003ca href=\"https://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/content/sites/default/files/documents/nano-lab-safety.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">red blood cells are 7 to 8 microns wide\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their ability to filter out fine particles from poor-quality air is important because wildfire smoke contains particles of just the right size that can irritate the respiratory system and worsen chronic heart and lung diseases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Particulate respirators do not protect wearers from dangerous gases and vapors, but the Bay Area is far enough from the wildfire that this is not a concern, said Brandon Hart, a program manager at the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Division of Occupational Safety and Health\u003c/a> (Cal/OSHA).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, many of these masks also use static electricity. 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