12,694 Owen W. Haskell, Inc.

By: Cal-OSHA Decisions

Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated May 22, 1978, Docket No. 78-R1D2-101. Adolf Loeb, Administrative Law Judge.

For App: Robert W. Blaska, Project Manager. For DIS: Ralph D. Allen, CSE.

Safety Belts and Lifelines, Above 15 Feet, Non-Use [serious violation]. A serious violation of 1669(a) was established. The $150 proposed penalty was affirmed.

"Except for one employee, who had tied off, employees of Appellant were at work on a platform 17 feet above floor grade without the protection of safety belts. Rails apparently were not usable under the circumstances of the air space cluttered with equipment used in operating the building, but, on the evi

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