The National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (National COSH) has released its annual list of 12 companies – Dirty Dozen. The companies included in the list are generally considered to be dangerous as a workplace.
An immigrant farmworker who worked for Beiza Brothers Harvesting died from heat exhaustion in less than a week after moving to the US. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined the firm for exposing the worker to “hazards of high ambient temperatures and working in direct sunlight.”
An employee of Tooma Enterprises suffocated to death when a trench collapsed at a building demolition site. In this case, the OSHA fined the company $35,000.
