California Division of Occupational Safety and Health

So there's regulations also you probably all have heard or are aware of, the water restrictions that we face in California, and so that's a whole 'nother group of regulations that we ha- are up against, um, with different advisory boards and committees, making sure that we are, you know, responsibly using our resources and, um, using only what's needed.

And then, you know, worker, worker safety, and so we're regulated by things like Cal OSHA, and then also at the federal level.

So, so it is true, you know, as you start to stack up all these regulations, it becomes a very, very challenging place to grow, um, grow our food.

But we're here.

[gentle music] In episode three, we had received the CMS report, which detailed thirteen pages of identified deficiencies and around fifty pages of Redwood City Hospital's corrections.

In episode four, we got the Cal OSHA report that was comparatively weak on findings, but much stronger in terms of supporting documentation.

In this episode, we're going for the trifecta, the third report from the overseeing organization closest to the incident, this one from the California Department of Public Health, or CDPH.

From previous episodes in this series, you'll remember that much to our surprise, we were the ones who originally alerted CDPH to this incident about a week after it happened.

That, plus the fact that the hospital failed to meet the statutory mandatory reporting timeline for the incident, there just had to be something from CDPH in response to this event.

Eventually, CDPH got back to us on our third request.

We were excited to finally be getting the information on the department's formal response to the accident, even if it wasn't a report like CMS or the Cal/OSHA reports.

We had braced ourselves to expect less than the other two reports, but even if CDPH didn't take any enforcement actions, surely there'd be at least a letter to the hospital that said something to the effect of be more careful in the future.

[gentle music] In episode three, we had received the CMS report, which detailed 13 pages of identified deficiencies and around 50 pages of Redwood City Hospital's corrections.

In episode four, we got the Cal OSHA report that was comparatively weak on findings, but much stronger in terms of supporting documentation.

In this episode, we're going for the trifecta, the third report from the overseeing organization closest to the incident, this one from the California Department of Public Health, or CDPH.

From previous episodes in this series, you'll remember that, much to our surprise, we were the ones who originally alerted CDPH to this incident about a week after it happened.

That, plus the fact that the hospital failed to meet the statutory mandatory reporting timeline for the incident, there just had to be something from CDPH in response to this event.

Eventually, CDPH got back to us on our third request.

We were excited to finally be getting the information on the department's formal response to the accident, even if it wasn't a report like CMS or the Cal/OSHA reports.

We had braced ourselves to expect less than the other two reports, but even if CDPH didn't take any enforcement actions, surely there'd be at least a letter to the hospital that said something to the effect of be more careful in the future.

Two hours later, when the oven was finally turned off and opened, Jose was found deceased.

Now, the official safety report from the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health revealed a glaring issue.

The oven system required operators to occasionally enter the oven to fix carts that became stuck.

This is inherently dangerous.