11,815 Stevenson & Forster

By: Cal-OSHA Decisions

CONSTRUCTION CO., INC.

Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated April 27, 1977, Docket No. 77-R5D2-013. Adolf Loeb, Administrative Law Judge.

For App: Gerald Forster, President. For DIS: Robert Yount, CSE.

Excavations and Trenches, Exposure to Moving Ground [serious violation]. This appeal was denied.

"The trench had been properly shored just before the cave-in...

"But the appellant removed one of the two shoring units, to reposition it further down the trench, thereby making room for the next section of pipe to be laid, and this was done while employees of appellant were in the trench carrying out their work assignments...

"The plain meaning o

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