Digest of COSHAB's decision dated May 19, 1976, Docket No. 75-R4D2-780. Gerald Winerman, Administrative Law Judge.
Penalties, Employer Out of Business---Employer, No Longer in Business, Penalties Not Appropriate. The appeal was granted for two nonserious scaffold violations and denied for a serious scaffold violation, but the $600 penalty for the latter was set aside.
The Law Judge found that a serious violation of 1644 existed where an employee fell 19 1/2 feet from a scaffold with open ends and was injured. The scaffold was erected to clean an oil storage tank. Appellants had gone together and reached an agreement with the owner of the tanks to cl
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