Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated August 1, 1986, Docket No. 86-R3D1-171 (Santa Ana, CA). Gerald Winerman, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Thomas P. McGuire, Attorney. For DOSH: William Loupe, Associate CSE.
A serious violation of 3329(b) (pipelines) was affirmed, with $275 penalty.
Pressure Pipelines: Good Engineering Practices To Be Used in Installing; Failure to Bleed Air Pocket Before Fatal Accident; Insufficient Setting of Adhesive.
The Division charged that Employer failed to use good engineering practices in installing a pressure pipeline, as required by the cited order. A foreman had been installing a heavy-duty, six-inch wat
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