Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's Decision dated October 19, 1984, Docket Nos. 84-R1D1-215 thru 218 (San Francisco, CA). Elise Manders, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Norair Metchikian, Project Manager. For DOSH: Michael Mason, Chief Counsel.
A willful/serious violation of 1540(d) (excavations), with $10,000 penalty, was affirmed. An earlier serious violation of the same safety order, with $175 penalty, was also affirmed, as was a general violation of 1541(d)(2) (trenches). This employer was one of several working on the San Francisco cable car line reconstruction project.
Excavations, Shoring or Sloping Absent, Alternate Means of Protection Inadequ
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