Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated May 15, 1981, Docket Nos. 81-R2D1-0181 thru 0183 (Sacramento, CA). Adolf Loeb, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Joseph Cabral, President. For DOSH: Bill Rummell, CSE.
This appeal was denied. Serious violations of 1633(a) (guarding elevator shaft) and 1626(e) (stair rails) were affirmed but the proposed penalties of $350 and $260 were reduced to $275 and $175 on the basis of insufficient allowance for Employer's good faith.
General Contractor, Does Not Relieve Subcontractor of Duty.
"It was Employer's position that it had no contractual liability to put up rails, that liability being assumed by the gen
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