13,953 Savala Construction Co., Inc.

By: Cal-OSHA Decisions

Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated June 23, 1980, Docket No. 79-R4D3-1587 (Costa Mesa, CA). Douglas M. Phillips, Administrative Law Judge.

For Employer: Curt Rummel, General Manager. For DOSH: Ralph S. del Campo, CSE.

Trenches, Entry or Exit from, Employee in Shallow End of Trench over Four Feet in Depth. A general violation of 1541 (b)(2) was established. No penalty was proposed.

"The Employer further argues that since the Employer believes that the employee was standing only 42 inches below the top of the trench, he could easily jump out of the trench and was provided an adequate means of exit, and that a ladder was not necessary. As mentione

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