Digest of COSHAB's decision dated April 2, 1976, Docket No. 75-R4D4-414. Leonard Goldstein, Senior Administrative Law Judge.
Shoring. A nonserious violation of 1540(b) was established and the $140 penalty was affirmed.
Appellant permitted his employee to enter a trench which was not shored or adequately sloped. ". . .The evidence establishes that proper sloping was not possible because of preexisting pipes; that no shoring existed in the excavation; that appellant believed that the forms for the to be poured in place manhole would be a substitute for shoring; and no other means equivalent to shoring or sloping were present. One of appellant's employ
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