Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's Decision dated May 20, 1983, Docket No. 83-R1D1-0090 (San Francisco, CA). Adolf Loeb, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Robert Southward Sr., Project Manager. For DOSH: Melissa Frumin, CSE.
This appeal was granted. The alleged serious violation of 1637(b) (appropriateness of scaffold substitutes) and the proposed $150 penalty were set aside.
Work Platforms, in Lieu of Rolling Scaffold---Evidence, Division's Failure to Establish Safe Capacity of Scaffold. Employer was the drywall and lathing subcontractor at a high- rise construction project. At a position where it was impossible to use a rolling scaffold, the Employer
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