Stating that the current position of Cal/OSHA regarding access to skeletal structures "could greatly increase" ironworkers' risk of injury, Mid-State Steel Erectors, Inc., of Stockton has petitioned the Cal/OSH Standards Board to formally allow the practice of "shinning."The petition is one of several submitted to the board in recent weeks.Shinning is a longtime practice within the ironworkers' profession in which workers climb structural steel columns, according to Randy Shipman, fi
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