Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated July 20, 1981, Docket No. 80-R1D4-1346 (Fremont, CA). H. W. Sherbourne, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Mike Connolly, Attorney. For DOSH: Robert Fischer, Associate CSE.
An alleged serious violation was dismissed where the evidence showed that the area in question was not a floor opening under the cited code section (3212(a)(1)) but was rather a "pit" or "similar sunken location" referred to with specificity in another (uncited) code section (3213(a)(3)).
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