Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated April 8, 1980, Docket Nos. 80-R1D2-100 thru 102 (Des Plaines, IL). Adolf Loeb, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: H. A. Bell, Manager of Safety and Security, and Rich Karvasek, Construction Manager. For DOSH: Mako Imamura, CSE.
Scaffolds, Access to. Serious violations were established where the rolling scaffold at the site lacked a top guardrail (1632(e)) and was not securely tied off (1646(a)); a penalty of $150 was affirmed for each violation. In rejecting Employer's claim that the scaffold was "tied off on top" because it was still attached, per industry practice, to the crane which had placed it, the AL
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