Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated April 28, 1977, Docket No. 76-R5D3-984. Ronald F. Peters, Administrative Law Judge.
For App: Bruce E. Allen, Attorney. For DIS: Allan Coie, LegalCounsel.
Excavations and Trenches, Sloping or Shoring Absent, No Violation where Ground Stabilized by Other Means. This appeal was granted.
"The weight of the evidence established that a trench 75 feet long, averaging 5 feet in depth and completely shored, with shoring extending to the tops of the trench, had an area approximately 3 feet long in which a hard substance protruded above the existing shoring. This hard substance was incapable of being cut by the trenchin
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