Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated January 23, 1978, Docket No. 77-R3D2-909. Jonah Lebell, Administrative Law Judge.
For App: L. J. Vitek, Safety Supervisor. For DIS: Kenneth L.Goodwin, CSE.
Trenches, Shoring or Sloping, Absent [serious violation]. This appeal was denied, the $85 proposed penalty affirmed.
"Section 1541(a) of the Construction Safety Orders provides in pertinent part that all trenches five feet or more in depth in all types of earth shall be effectively guarded against the hazards of moving ground. The uncontroverted evidence presented established that Appellant constructed a trench for the purpose of lowering a gas line from t
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