Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated September 28, 1977, Docket No. 76-R5D1-1273. Jonah Lebell, Administrative Law Judge.
For App: Marti Lee, Owner. For DIS: Kenneth L. Goodwin, CSE.
Penalties, Reasonableness, Naivete of OSHA Requirements. A serious violation of 1670(a) was not contested. The penalty proposed was vacated.
"With respect to the civil penalty proposed, the California Labor Code requires all employers to comply with safety code requirements and are held accountable if they fail to do so. The arrangements here entered into were peculiarly unique. There was no question but that Appellant was the employer in the statutory sense and th
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