California maintains workers comp rate
- California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara maintained the benchmark rate at $1.45 per $100 of payroll for workers’ compensation insurance.
- The rate is unchanged from last year and within the reasonable actuarial range proposed by other experts, effective Sept. 1, 2022.
- Because of continued uncertainty regarding COVID-19 and its effects on the economy, this year’s pure premium rate remains the same as last year’s rate, and again does not include a COVID-19 factor.
- Lara will continue to review data in future pure premium rate filings to determine the long-term impact of COVID-19 claims as well as other experience data.
Utah correctional center worker injured after electrical shock
- A worker at the Bonneville Community Correctional Center in Utah was is in critical condition after he was shocked by electricity on the roof of the building.
- The man was flown by helicopter to a local hospital for treatment and officials did not disclose his condition.
- Investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the electric shock and what the man was doing on the roof.
- The Bonneville facility manages 74 male parolees that will eventually transition back to the community.
South Carolina worker killed after falling down smokestack
- A man was killed after falling to the bottom of a smokestack on a ship at the Detyens Shipyard in North Charleston, S.C.
- The victim was not harnessed and the platform and fell between 63-100 feet down to the bottom of the smokestack when the platform collapsed.
- His fellow workers tried to maintain contact with him at the bottom of the smoke stack but he eventyally stopped responding.
- EMS and Fire crews were able to locate the victim but he died at the scene.
Connecticut landscaper injured after getting pinned between vehicles
- A 31-year-old landscaping worker in Connecticut was seriously injured after Litchfield crash leaves her pinned between truck and trailer.
- A man driving a Porsche Macan collided with a landscape trailer and truck parked off the right side of the roadway.
- The female employee was standing to the rear of the Porsche when she was pinned between the trailer and truck.
- The worker was transported to a local hospital with serious injuries to her lower extremities and the driver of the Porsche sustained minor injuries.