Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated July 6, 1979, Docket No. 79-R4D5-267. Gerald Winerman, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Steve S. Rados, Vice President. For DOSH: Marilyn Levin, Graduate Legal Assistant.
Evidence, Admissions, by Silence. A general violation was established. No penalty was proposed.
"8 Cal. Adm. Code 1540(i) requires a convenient and safe means of access to be provided for workmen to enter and exit an excavation. It cannot be considered a safe means of access to and from an excavation for an employee to have to slide down an embankment, 2 or 3 feet, to reach the top of a ladder, particularly when the bottom of the ladde
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