Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated July 5, 1979, Docket Nos. 79-R3D4-260 and 261. Douglas M. Phillips, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Frank Kleman, Safety Director. For DOSH: Jerry Habeck, CSE.
Scaffolds, Guardrails, Absent at End. A serious violation was established. The $450 proposed penalty was affirmed.
"The weight of the evidence presented established that two employees of the Employer were working from an elevated platform on a scaffold about 17 feet above the ground underneath, and were working at the ends of this platform which had no guardrails. The evidence presented established that these two employees were subject to fallin
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