Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated June 9, 1976, Docket Nos. 75-R4D3-382 and 383. Douglas M. Phillips, Administrative Law Judge.
[1] Employer Under Cal-OSH Act, "Special" Employer Construed---[2] Exposure to Hazard, Contractor Not Responsible for Employees of Subcontractor---[3] Workers' Compensation, Distinguished from Cal-OSHA. This appeal was granted. Appellant, whose own employees were not exposed to hazard, was not liable for the exposure of a subcontractor's employees to alleged serious violations of 1511(c) and 1670(a). An analogy to the concept of a "special employer," recognized for purposes of Workers' Compensation, submitted by the
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