Digest of COSHAB's decision dated January 20, 1975, Docket No. 74-R5D1-337. Ford B. Ford, Chairman; Monroe Browne and Gerald Shearin, Members. Robert L. Harvey, Hearing Officer.
Independent Contractor, Circumstances of Employment Controlling. The appeal was granted from a citation alleging a serious violation of Section 2946(b) (prohibiting the bringing of a tool or equipment within ten feet of a power line) carrying a proposed penalty of $600.
Appellant, operator of an avocado ranch, was found not to be the employer of a worker killed when his metal picking device made contact with a high voltage line, where the circumstances of the worker's employ
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