Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's Decision dated April 21, 1983, Docket Nos. 82-R5D4-592 and 593 (Whittier, CA). Ronald F. Peters, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Robert M. Stone, Attorney. For DOSH: Stephen S. Handin, Staff Counsel.
This appeal was denied. The alleged repeat/serious violation of 1540(b) (guarding excavations) and the proposed $1,275 penalty were established.
Guarding, Excavations, Shoring or Sloping Systems. The Employer was installing a pipeline for transferring petroleum products from an offshore rig to a processing plant. At two separate crossings of a stream, the excavations were not properly guarded. One employee, a welder, was
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