10,666 Abbott Drilling Corporation

By: Cal-OSHA Decisions

Digest of COSHAB's decision dated November 5, 1975, Docket No. 74-R5D2-820. Ford B. Ford, Chairman; Harold Mitchell, Member. Douglas M. Phillips, Hearing Officer.

Electrical, High Voltage. The appeal was denied and the proposed penalty of $600 for a serious violation of Section 2946(a) was affirmed.

Appellant was engaged in the drilling of de-watering holes and the installation of pipe. The holes were about six feet distant on a horizontal plane from overhead high voltage lines located about 34 feet above the ground. Once the holes were dug, Appellant's employees lowered 35-foot sections of pipes into them. The pipe, while being lowered, was guided

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