SPARTAN CONSTRUCTION
Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated July 27, 1978, Docket No. 77-R1D2-1196. Douglas M. Phillips, Administrative Law Judge.
For App: James R. Hinson, Safety Consultant. For DIS: RobertB. McCrum, CSE.
Excavations vs Trenches, Citation Dismissed. This appeal was granted.
"The evidence presented established that Appellant's employee was working in a corner of an excavation 6 feet deep bounded by two vertical walls at a 90-degree angle, and that the width of the excavation at this location was at least 10 feet at the top. Uncontradicted evidence, therefore, established that the excavation at this location was wider than it was
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