Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated December 20, 1977, Docket Nos. 77-R1D9-474 and 475. Adolf Loeb, Administrative Law Judge.
For App: Cora Lewis, Counsel. For DIS: Sam A. Alexander, Senior Engineer, Mining and Tunneling Unit.
Mining Operations, Cement Manufacture Not. The Appellant's activities were held to not be within the scope of the Mine Safety Orders cited. Accordingly the citations alleging a serious and a general violation were dismissed.
"The threshold question is whether Appellant at the site on inspection date was engaged in mining operations. The citations could stand only if this question is answerable in the affirmative, since a
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