Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated February 25, 1977, Docket No. 76-R5D1-420. Ronald F. Peters, Administrative Law Judge.
For App: Ray Murphy, Vice President. For DIS: Charles A.Fox, CSE.
Penalties, Serious Violation. This appeal was granted to the extent that a $700 proposed penalty for a serious violation of 1541(a) was reduced to and affirmed of $200.
"The weight of the evidence established that Appellant's employees were working in the trench immediately adjacent to shoring members. The Division's testimony that, but for the fact that the employees would have to traverse an unshored 16 foot portion of the trench in order to exit the trench
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