Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated May 23, 1979, Docket No. 78-R1D2-1448. August F. Cetti, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Zygie C. Zaslona, President. For DOSH: Thomas Meamber, CSE.
This appeal was denied. One repeat/general violation was established; the proposed penalty was affirmed.
"It is found that the $85 proposed civil penalty is reasonable and appropriate in view of the fact that the foreman himself was on the 12-foot high scaffold platform working alongside of his men without the protection of a midrail, and apparently tolerated prior to the inspection the continued employment of a hod carrier who refused to comply with orders
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