Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's Decision dated February 1, 1985, Docket No. 84-R5D1-203 (Baldwin Park, CA). Ronald F. Peters, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Eugene F. McMenamin, Attorney. For DOSH: Allen Coie, Staff Counsel.
A general violation of 1510(a) was affirmed where a plumber supplied through his union hiring hall was given a hard hat but no further training when he reported to work. The ALJ cited Crescent Wharf and Warehouse Company, OSHAB 78-602 and 603 (Digest 13,025R); and General Motors Assembly Division, OSHAB 80-1179 (Digest 15,904R), in which he himself had been reversed by the Board.
The plumber was injured during the unloading of
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