Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's Decision dated June 6, 1983, Docket No. 82-R1D5-1093 (Santa Rosa, CA). H. W. Sherbourne, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Mark A. Fudem, Attorney. For DOSH: Paul F. Wotman, Staff Counsel.
This appeal was granted. The alleged serious violation of 3212(a) (guarding floor openings) and the proposed $150 penalty were set aside.
Employer-Employee Relationship. While working in an attic area, an electrician was injured when he stepped into a four-inch depression which had a steel cover at the bottom. The cover was not secure enough to hold a person's weight and the worker fell through to the floor 10 feet below. The issue
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