13,618 W. M. Lyles Company

By: Cal-OSHA Decisions

Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated December 7, 1979, Docket No. 79-R3D4-1025 (Fresno, CA). Ronald F. Peters, Administrative Law Judge.

For Employer: James R. Hinson, Safety and Health Consultants. For DOSH: Clarence W. Kuhns, CSE.

A serious violation was established where Employer's employees entered an unshored trench over five feet deep, which was sloped less than the required 3/4 horizontal to one vertical. The $325 proposed penalty was affirmed.

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