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Company Fined As Result of Employee Death

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The California Department of Industrial Relations (“CDIR”) fined Pacific Gas & Electric $176,000 as a result of the the electrocution of a utility worker this year.  The CDIR levied the fine after reviewing a Cal-OSHA report alleging lax enforcement of employee safety rules.  A worker was installing a transformer into a vault when he was electrocuted.  Here is a link to an article –

Fine Levied as Result of Worker’s Death

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Written By: author image Dean Malone
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Dean Malone is the founder of Law Offices of Dean Malone, P.C., a jail neglect civil rights law firm. Mr. Malone earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Texas at Dallas, graduating summa cum laude with a 4.0 GPA, and from Baylor University School of Law with a general civil litigation concentration. Mr. Malone served in several staff positions for the Baylor Law Review, including executive editor. Mr. Malone is an experienced trial lawyer, trying a number of cases to jury verdict and also handling arbitrations through final hearing. He heads the jail neglect section of his law firm, in which lawyers litigate cases involving serious injury and death resulting from jail neglect and abuse. Lawyers frequently refer cases to Mr. Malone due to his focus on this very complicated civil rights practice area.
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