Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated May 4, 1977, Docket No. 76-R3D3-1254. Marilyn L. Nelson, Administrative Law Judge.
For App: L. W. Brown Contract Compliance Manager. For DIS: Jerry Habeck, CSE.
Citation, of Non-Applicable Standard---Excavations and Trenches, Definitions [1540 and 1541 construed]. This appeal was granted.
"...(T)he average width of the excavation in the area where the employee was working exceeded the depth of nine feet, and...the hole was an excavation rather than a trench within the definition of Sections 1504(E) and (O). The Appeals Board previously held in its Decision After Consideration, Weeshoff Construction Company,.
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