Firefighters rescued a pit bull puppy Sunday night from a sink hole from a collapsed septic tank in Calimesa using confined space rescue techmiques, Cal Fire officials said. The trapped dog was reported at 8:18 p.m. Sunday in the 200 block of Myrtlewood Drive, south of Avenue L in Calimesa, Melody Hendrickson of Cal Fire-Riverside County said in a statement.  Four engine crews with 18 firefighters responded, Hendrickson said. The puppy was trapped 15 to 20 feet down in a confined space, and the technical rescue was declared complete at 10:12 p.m., Hendrickson said. No injuries were...

Code Red Safety has worked with Work One a local government agencyin Indiana to hire veterans that are having difficulty finding employment and careers.  Scott Moser is an example of the veterans that Code Red Safety hires.  Scott started with Code Red in the summer of 2011 and was recently promoted to 2nd on Code Red Safety’s confined space rescue teams.  According to Al Pasco, Code Red’s rescue manager, Scott has what it takes to have good career in confined space rescue.  Scott is disaplined, patient, hard working and intelligent, “he has worked hard to get...

BERKELEY — Many employers are mistakenly relying upon public fire departments to rescue workers from confined spaces, such as water and sewer pipes, manholes and tunnels, according to an analysis by University of California, Berkeley, health researchers of hundreds of deaths in the United States over 13 years.  Construction workers are at special risk of dying in a confined space, such as an unshored trench (above). They constituted 20 percent of the 530 fatalities evaluated in a new UC Berkeley study, but they represent just 5 percent of the U.S. workforce. There is no federal OSHA...

One man died and another was in critical condition Tuesday after being exposed to chemicals at a paint manufacturing plant in Fullerton, authorities said. The men were unconscious when they were found inside a tank by a co-worker at Vista Paint, Fullerton police Sgt. Andrew Goodrich told the Orange County Register (http://bit.ly/uETjAq). The co-worker, with the help of other employees, pulled the men out, Goodrich said. One man was pronounced dead at a hospital. He was identified late Tuesday by the county coroner’s office as Roberto Magdariago, 62. A second man, who police said is 45,...

It has been reported that West Sussex Fire Service crews attended the College Grounds, North Street, Midhurst after a tower crane erector was injured approximately 30m from the ground whilst dismantling the crane. The incident ”was a protracted incident due to the confined space and difficult access” which only allowed a limited number of staff and ambulance paramedics to deal with the injured man. His injuries required him to be lowered using a line and a basket stretcher from the jib of the crane involving “specialist skills and equipment and was complex in nature” The rescue took...

Appearing before the Kern County Board of Supervisors Tuesday at its request, California Division of Occupational Safety and Health Chief Ellen Widess gave an update on an investigation into the death of two brothers killed at Community Recycling & Resource Recovery Inc. in Lamont. She said the deaths should never have happened. “This kind of confined-space death is totally preventable,” said Widess. Supervisors had been pressing Cal/OSHA for answers in its investigation that happened Oct.12. The state agency said 16-year-old Armando Ramirez was cleaning out a drainage...