Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated January 13, 1986, Docket Nos. 85-R3D3-531 thru 536 (Claremont, CA). Douglas M. Phillips, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Robert D. Peterson, Attorney. For DOSH: Vincent Ruiz, Graduate Legal Assistant.
1540(g)(1) (excavations): A general violation was affirmed. Employer's employees worked in a bore pit more than nine feet deep without a ladder, stairway, ramp, or other safe means of access or exit. Whether, and how long, a ladder had been present was sharply disputed in the testimony. It was established that, for about one and one-half hours, workers were in the pit and the ladder was not. This was suffic
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