Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated August 22, 1980, Docket Nos. 80-R4D5-774 thru 777 (Lancaster, CA). Gerald Winerman, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Arnold A. Rodio, President. For DOSH: Dwight Goossen, CSE.
Excavations, Trenches or Earthworks, Guarding Against Moving Ground by Shoring or Sloping, Failure to Provide or Install. A serious violation of 1540(b) and its $175 civil penalty were affirmed.
"8 Cal. Adm. Code 1540(b) requires the walls and faces of all excavations five feet or more in depth which employees enter to be effectively guarded by a shoring system, sloping of the ground, or other equivalent means. The Division presen
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