Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated June 21, 1979, Docket No. 79-R2D1-044. Robert L. Harvey, Presiding Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Robert D. Peterson, Attorney. For DOSH: C. Duane Niesen, CSE.
This appeal was denied.
". . . The Employer contends that if the worker fell, he would most likely not fall upon the rebar. However, this contention represents only a theory regarding the possible direction of a fall and does not exclude a contrary possibility that a fall could result in substantial injury from a fall upon the rebar. On balance, a hazard is determined to have existed; and the general violation of 8 Cal. Adm. Code 1712(a) shall
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