12,069 W. M. Lyles Co.

By: Cal-OSHA Decisions

Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated August 5, 1977, Docket Nos. 76-R1D1-438 and 439. Adolf Loeb, Administrative Law Judge.

For App: William McInerney, Attorney at Law. For DIS: Christopher R. Miller, Legal Counsel, BOI.

Confined Space, Testing for Gas, Include Pipe Sections Under Construction. Appellant was a corporation engaged in the construction of underground utilities. The project at the site was the laying of water pipe four feet in diameter for a utility. The pipe was laid 50 inches below the street grade. While extending the pipeline, the Appellant's backhoe operator severed a Pacific Gas and Electric 3/4-inch lateral gas line. The backhoe

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