Digest of COSHAB's decision dated January 16, 1975, Docket No. 74-R4D3-615. Ford B. Ford, Chairman; Monroe Browne and Gerald Shearin, Members. Leonard Goldstein, Senior Hearing Officer.
Hoisting, Crane Operation. The appeal was granted and a citation alleging a single serious violation of Section 4994(a) was vacated along with the proposed civil penalty of $500.
Appellant, operating a mobile truck crane loading steel reinforcing bars on board an ocean-going barge, was alleged to have violated Section 4994(a). The evidence presented by the Division was to the effect that the outriggers on the crane were observed rising off the wharf from 3 to 5 inche
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