Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated September 29, 1978, Docket No. 78-R2D3-783. August F. Cetti, Administrative Law Judge.
For App: Mike Andrews, Owner-Partner. For DIS: GaryRobeson, CSE.
Logging, Log Landing. A serious violation of 6335(a) was established. The $205 penalty proposed was affirmed.
"A twenty-one year old, choker setter employed by Appellant sustained fatal crushing injuries on the morning of March 16, 1978, when he was struck by a heavy, 32-foot long, Douglas fir log. The log had been hoisted into the air and swung to a point above the log deck. The log was released by Appellant's shovel operator when the shovel began to tip as h
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