Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's Decision dated June 18, 1984, Docket No. 84-R2D5-200 (Fresno, CA). August F. Cetti, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: James R. Hinson, Safety and Health Consultant. For DOSH: M. M. Costa Jr., CSE.
A serious violation of 1541(c)(2) (shoring system cross-bracing) and its associated $100 penalty were vacated.
Employer's employee was observed working in an excavation 29 feet long, 10 feet wide and eight feet deep in which there was proper cross-bracing every eight feet except between the uprights three feet from the end of the trench. It had been removed for setting of a vertical manhole cylinder or barrel, which could not
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