Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated April 14, 1977, Docket No. 76-R5D3-1166. Adolf Loeb, Administrative Law Judge.
For App: Tom Lynch, Chairman of the Board. For DIS: Christian C. Lutz, CSE.
Excavations and Trenches, Guarding, Shafts [serious violation]---Employer, Responsibility, for Unsafe Conditions, Cannot Transfer to Employees or Other Employer---Abatement, Reasonableness of Requirements, Loss of Economic Advantage in Marketplace Immaterial---Cal-OSHA, Jurisdiction, Self-Employed Persons Beyond. This appeal established the alleged serious violation of 1542(a) and affirmed the proposed penalty of $600.
"The only issue of substance was whet
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