Appeals Board Disposes of More Jurisdiction and Penalty Dars

LOS ANGELES -- Readers will find most of this week's Decisions section taken up by six Decisions After Reconsideration (DARs), which resolve an ongoing contention by Shea-Kiewit-Kenny (SKK), the former Metro Rail contractor, that it should not be penalized for violations.The two main issues in these DARs were: whether Cal/OSHA had jurisdiction to cite SKK for state safety-order tunneling violations when Fed-OSHA also issued a citation; and whether the individual partners in the SKK joint venture, whi