Nursing Home Workers Died of COVID, Failed to Tell Watchdogs California’s health department regularly updates a list of COVID infections and deaths at nursing homes. But only half of listed facilities where employees have died from the disease have reported the death to Cal/OSHA. by Jason Pohl, Dale Kasler, and Ryan Sabalow, The Sacramento Bee / February 18, 2021 TNS (TNS) - Feb. 18—A year into the pandemic, California's workplace safety watchdog doesn't know how many nursing home workers have contracted COVID-19 on the job and died, a Sacramento Bee review of state records shows.
California's health department regularly updates a list of COVID-19 infections and deaths at nursing homes. But only about half of those listed facilities where employees have died from the disease have bothered to report the death to Cal/ OSHA, the agency in charge of enforcing worker safety, according to the state records.