Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated June 24, 1977, Docket Nos. 76-R5D1-832 and 833. Ronald F. Peters, Administrative Law Judge.
For App: Bruce E. Allen, Attorney. For DIS: Melvin R. Segal, Deputy Attorney General.
A weighsman employee was killed when a scaffold tower fell on him while employees were disassembling it. A worker apparently pulled on a cross member causing the tower to tip.
Four of the alleged violations were found inapplicable since "...the tower had ceased being used as a platform for work by any tradesmen involved in the process of building the ship. It had been disassembled to the point that the planking had been stacked at va
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