Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated March 11, 1985, Docket Nos. 84-R3D1-687 thru 689 (Newport Beach, CA). Jonah Lebell, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Robert K. Winston, Director of Administration. For DOSH: William Loupe, Associate CSE.
Three serious violations of the Construction Safety Orders were affirmed for: employees working on a light outrigger scaffold without guardrails (1645(b)); not providing scaffolds where work cannot be done safely from solid or permanent construction (1637(a)); lack of protection for employees working 12 feet above protruding reinforcing steel (1712(a)). The penalty for the second violation was reduced fro
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