Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's Decision dated May 4, 1983, Docket No. 82-R1D5-1335 (Windsor, CA). Adolf Loeb, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Dave Duckhorn, Truck Driver. For DOSH: Stephan A. Williams, CSE.
This appeal was denied. A serious violation of 1540(d) (excavation shoring) was established, with a related penalty of $125.
Excavations, Shoring. 1540(d) requires that employees who enter excavations be protected by a system of shoring, sloping of ground, benching or other alternate means outlined in the safety orders.
"There was no serious dispute in the evidence - the excavation was up to six feet in places, the walls were vertical, unshore
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