19,382R Sierra National Construction, Inc.

By: Cal-OSHA Decisions

Digest of COSHAB's Grant of Petition for Reconsideration and Decision After Reconsideration dated September 16, 1998, Docket No. 97-R2D1-3022. James P. Gazdecki, Chairman; Bryan E. Carver, Member.

The Appeals Board affirmed the portion of the ALJ decision of June 26, 1998 [Digest 19,332], that was the subject of Employer's petition, finding a serious violation and setting its penalty at $685.

Excavations, Protection from Cave-Ins, Benching Inadequate (1541.1(b))---ALJ, Properly Considered and Weighed Evidence---Serious Violation, Employer Knowledge.

Employer, a trenching and excavating contractor, was laying underground water pipeline when it was in

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