14,108 California Erectors

By: Cal-OSHA Decisions

BAY AREA, INC.

Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated September 26, 1980, Docket No. 80-R1D3-557 (San Leandro, CA). H. W. Sherbourne, Administrative Law Judge.

For Employer: V. D. McEuen, President. For DOSH: G. "Ben" Edgar, Jr., Associate CSE.

Floor Openings, Temporarily Unguarded While Work is in Progress; Sections 1632[a] and 1632[c] Construed. A serious violation of 1632(a) was established where an employee of the Employer walked through an unguarded floor opening and fell 20 to 25 feet. The $150 proposed penalty was affirmed.

"The substantial evidence in this case shows there was a floor opening approximately three feet by eighteen feet and a

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