10,452 Wattson Company

By: Cal-OSHA Decisions

Digest of COSHAB's decision dated June 16, 1975, Docket No. 74-R4D9-736. Ford B. Ford, Chairman; Monroe Browne and Gerald Shearin, Members. Leonard Goldstein, Senior Hearing Officer.

Tunnel Safety Orders, Safety Precautions [8410[k]]. The appeal was granted and a citation alleging a nonserious violation of 8410(k) was dismissed along with the proposed $66 penalty.

Appellant's foreman was assessing a tunneling operation that had been halted because of a misalignment when the Division inspected and found what it determined to be excessive quantities of water. The puddles were in some places 1 to 1 1/2 feet deep and submersible pumps were being used to

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