Digest of COSHAB's Decision dated June 14, 1974, Docket No. 74-R4D2-160. Ford B. Ford, Chairman; Monroe Browne and Gerald Shearin, Members.
Metal Scaffolds---Ladders. The appeal was denied in part and granted in part from a citation alleging the violation of seven sections of CAC Title 8. The Board dismissed an alleged violation of: a safety order requiring complete guardrails around the outside periphery of scaffold platforms over 7 1/2 feet high (1644); and a safety order requiring that ladders be secured against displacement and that ladders remaining in one location for several hours have upper and lower landings of an area of at least four square
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