Digest of COSHAB's Decision After Reconsideration dated February 26, 1980, Docket No. 76-R2D3-922, 923. Harold Mitchell, Chairman; Mark K. Bowers and Charles Manfred, Members.
Accident, Not Per Se Proof of Violation---Electrical High Voltage, Work in Proximity to. The decision of the ALJ in this matter (Digest 11,895), which dismissed an alleged nonserious (now general) violation of 2946(b)(2) and which dismissed an alleged serious violation of 2946(b)(2), was affirmed.
"In the course of laying concrete sewer pipe in an excavation by means of a hydraulic crane, an employee of Employer sustained an electrical shock. Because of unstable ground which w
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