15,273 Atlantic Oil Co.

Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's Decision dated January 13, 1983, Docket No. 82-R2D3-929 (Paramount, CA). H. W. Sherbourne, Administrative Law Judge.

For Employer: Paul B. Stroud, Vice President. For DOSH: John A. MacFarlane, Assistant CSE.

This appeal was granted. The alleged serious violation of 6648(a) (storing pipes on racks) and the proposed $260 penalty were set aside.

Storing Pipe, Adequate Chocking or Wedging, Completed Loading Operations Only. An Atlantic Oil employee was loading pipes onto a pipe storage rack when a 400-pound pipe fell off the rack and amputated his toes. The ALJ held the safety order requiring that the pipes on the rack be chocke