Summary of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated June 3, 1992, Docket Nos. 91-R3D2-1174 and 1185 (El Centro, CA). Jonah Lebell, Administrative Law Judge. For Employer: William Harberson, Vice President. For DOSH: Natalie Klein, Associate Safety Engineer.
An accident investigation ensued from a fall in which Employer's employee climbed a ladder carrying a 30-pound freon cannister to service an air conditioning unit on the roof of a building and fell 25 feet to a concrete sidewalk when the ladder slid sideways. Citations of General Industry orders were issued for general violation of 3203(a)(7)(E) and serious violation of 3276(a)(1), the latter with a $1,600 prop
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