Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated July 30, 1980, Docket No. 80-R1D2-474 (Redwood City, CA). Adolf Loeb, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Norman A. Lindberg, Vice-President. For DOSH: Ralph Allen, CSE.
A serious violation of 1633(a) and its $250 civil penalty were vacated.
Elevator Shafts, Guardrails---Employee, Exposure to the Hazard.
"The safety order calls for guardrails around all elevator shafts in which cages are not installed and which are not enclosed with solid partitions and doors. None of these conditions existed at the site. We are concerned here, however, with conditions that give rise to a citable breach of a safety order
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