Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated July 9, 1980, Docket No. 80-R1D1-067 (San Francisco, CA). Adolf Loeb, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Michael C. Jonas, Attorney at Law. For DOSH: Alison Colgan, Staff Counsel.
A serious violation of 2941(d) (inspection of utility poles prior to climbing by employee) was reduced to a general violation and its $300 civil penalty was set aside.
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"The citation was inartfully drawn in that it charged a failure to implement a program to assure that poles are safe to climb, when the safety order makes no requirements that there be a program - only t
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