15,576 General Engineering

By: Cal-OSHA Decisions

& MACHINE WORKS

Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's Decision dated November 3, 1983, Docket Nos. 83-R1D1-771 thru 773 (San Francisco, CA). Robert A. Heron, Administrative Law Judge.

For Employer: Robert E. Blake, President. For DOSH: Kay N. Zunino, CSE.

This appeal was granted in part and denied in part. A general violation of 1644(a) (3) (scaffold bases) was established; alleged serious violations of 1644(c)(5) (scaffold framing) and 1644(c)(6) (scaffold panels) were vacated.

During a routine inspection of Employer's worksite, two employees were observed scraping a building while standing on two planks on top of a metal scaffold. The employees stood 14 feet

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