Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's Decision dated October 11, 1984, Docket No. 84-R2D3-081 (Redding, CA). August F. Cetti, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: William T. Putnam, Controller. For DOSH: William T. Brucker, Associate CSE.
A serious violation of 1540(d) (excavations) was affirmed, with $205 penalty. (The ALJ on his own motion severed this matter from those reported below at Digest 15,908.)
Employer's foreman and laborer were seen working in an excavation (a boring pit) about eight feet deep and 20 feet long unprotected by any means provided by 1541, 1542, 1544 or 1547.
"One side of the excavation was properly benched but the other side had a
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