Digest of COSHAB's decision dated October 30, 1975, Docket No. 74-R4D2-1001. Ford B. Ford, Chairman; Harold Mitchell, Member. Robert L. Harvey, Presiding Hearing Officer.
Employer, Duty to Guard Against Hazard Created by Another. Appellant, a plumbing subcontractor, did not contest the existence of the alleged conditions but defended on the basis that he neither created, caused, nor was otherwise responsible.
"This contention is based upon a decision in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago which involved the Federal OSHA program enforced by the U.S. Secretary of Labor. In that case, the Federal Court held that a subcontract
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