15,013 Pacific Telephone & Telegraph

Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's Decision dated June 3, 1982, Docket Nos. 82-R2D4-118 and 119 (San Francisco, CA). Adolf Loeb, Administrative Law Judge.

For Employer: Ronald McClain, Attorney. For DOSH: Brian Young, CSE.

This appeal was granted to the extent that the alleged repeat/general violation of 3686(h) (safety belts in aerial baskets) and the proposed $300 penalty were set aside. A general violation of 1598(d) (high-visibility garments) was established, but no penalty was proposed.

Employee, Independent Act---Elevated Aerial Devices, Safety Belts and Secured Lanyards. A Pacific Telephone line technician was observed in an aerial basket elevated abou