12,016 Martin & Martin

By: Cal-OSHA Decisions

GENERAL BUILDERS, INC.

Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated July 19, 1977, Docket No. 76-R3D1-1267. Douglas M. Phillips, Administrative Law Judge.

For App: Curtis Bradley, Vice-President. For DIS: JamesB. Wolfson, CSE.

Appellant was found in serious violation of 8 Cal. Adm. Code 1670(a) where an employee, without a safety belt and lifeline or other protective device, fell 36 feet to the ground and was injured while erecting a barn structure. Appellant failed to establish that the rigging of safety devices would be more hazardous than the work itself, such that Appellant would qualify for the exception contained in 1669(c). The violation and the

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