Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's Decision dated February 5, 1985, Docket No. 84-R1D4-433 (Cotati, CA). Ronald F. Peters, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Chuck Bradley, President. For DOSH: John L. Dailey, CSE.
A serious violation of 3686(h) (vehicle mounted elevating and rotating work platforms) was affirmed, with $160 penalty.
An employee was injured when the self-propelled boom lift truck he was unloading from a truck fell off it. He had not used unloading ramps which would have averted the accident, and the newly-purchased lift truck was operated at a 15-foot height from within its basket, which was not equipped with safety belt or lanyard equipm
Read More...