Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated August 1, 1979, Docket No. 79-R1D1-511. Jonah Lebell, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: E. M. Williams, Safety Director. For DOSH: Mehar C. Mangewala, CSE.
This appeal was denied.
"...There is no doubt but that the platform and guardrails would have provided approved protection for the employee if he were working while standing on the platform. However, according to the evidence he was not working at this level but as stated above, was above the platform at a level even with the top of the guardrails. Such an arrangement does not meet the adequate protection required by the safety order as a substitute fo
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