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California OSHA Undercounts Workers’ COVID Illnesses, Deaths The agency has been relying on self-reporting to determine the number of COVID cases that have been contracted in the workplace, resulting in severe undercounts that undermine the severity of workplace risk. Jason Pohl, Dale Kasler and Phillip Reese, The Sacramento Bee   |   February 2, 2021   |  Analysis (TNS) — A year after the first COVID-19 case hit California, the state a...

‘Major, major problem.’ California failing to track workplace COVID infections, deaths [The Sacramento Bee] Feb. 2—A year after the first COVID-19 case hit California, the state agency in charge of policing warehouses, offices, factories and other workplaces is woefully understaffed and significantly undercounting the number of employees who have fallen seriously ill or died as a result of the coronavirus. California employers reported only 1,600 serious worker illnesses or deaths to the ...