Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated November 8, 1978, Docket Nos. 78-R2D5-1078 and 1079. Jonah Lebell, Administrative Law Judge.
For App: Gordon C. Schnell, Vice President. For DIS: JoeH. Satcher, CSE.
Excavations and Trenches: [A] Must Slope or Shore Both Sides [serious violation]; [B] Work Within Not Related to Excavating [1540[g] construed]. A serious violation of 1540(b) was established. The $75 related penalty was affirmed. One general violation was established; no penalty was proposed. An alleged general violation of 1540(g) was dismissed.
(A) "Section 1540(b) requires that the walls and faces of all excavations five feet or more in depth
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