Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated April 24, 1986, Docket No. 85-R3D1-1533 (Long Beach, CA). Jonah Lebell, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Richard Pavlich, General Superintendent. For DOSH: Robert K. Yount, Associate CSE.
A serious violation of 2946(b)(3) was affirmed. The proposed $500 penalty was reduced to $200.
Penalty, Mitigated by Employer's Efforts to Comply--Electrical High Voltage Lines, Operator's Effort to Maintain Proper Distance.
Employer had a drilling rig operating under a 12,000-volt energized line. The safety order requires a distance of at least 10 feet between boom-type lifting or hoisting equipment and lines carryin
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