DP 2.09 Industrial Accidents

Question 1

California Labor Code section 6409.2 requires that whenever a police or fire department is called to a job-related accident in which a serious injury, illness, or death occurs, or when a patient is transported for the same, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Cal-OSHA) shall be notified how and when?

Answer 1

Immediately by phone.

Question 2

Do on duty police or other city employee injuries/ deaths require OSHA notification

Answer 2

Yes

Question 3

In what scenario could a traffic collision on a public road require an OSHA notification?

Answer 3

If the collision involves work vehicles (or mobile machinery), in use as industrial equipment (such as graders, backhoes, and water trucks)

Question 4

What agency primarily responsible for handling

industrial accidents?

Answer 4

SDFD

Question 5

When does SDPD assist with an OSHA related call.

Answer 5

When the incident results in death, is caused by criminal activity, or is suspicious in nature.

Question 6

What are the roles of SDFD and SDPD at an industrial accident resulting in a death.

Answer 6

SDPD handles the death report, SDFD handles the OSHA notification.

Question 7

During the investigation and reporting of industrial deaths that are accidental, suspicious, or criminal in nature. Industrial deaths involving accidental or suspicious circumstances, who must be contacted?

Answer 7

Communications Division and/or the Watch Commander’s Office to ensure that the District
Attorney’s Office Economic Crimes Division-Environmental Crimes Unit, has been notified, via the District Attorney’s 24-hour answering service.

Question 8

If SDFD is canceled before arriving at an industrial accident, what should patrol do?

Answer 8

Contact Communications Division and/or the Watch Commander’s Office to ensure that Cal-OSHA
has been notified.

Question 9

Do industrial accident injuries that occur as a result of criminal activity require Cal-OSHA notification?

Answer 9

No.

Question 10

Industrial accidents that are suspicious in nature must immediately be reported to who?

Answer 10

Cal-OSHA and the District Attorney’s Office Economic Crimes Division-Environmental Crimes Unit.

Question 11

When making a notification, what info does OSHA need?

Answer 11

Business name and contact person, business address, business telephone number, location of accident, date and time of incident, name, address, phone number, and date of birth of the injured
person, nature of the injury, accident description, where the injured person was transported, and other public agencies at the site.