Digest of COSHAB's Decision After Reconsideration dated March 7, 1985, Docket No. 81-R4D6-1256. Elaine W. Donaldson, Chairman; L. A. Harrington and Alfred H. Song, Members.
The Appeals Board affirmed the ALJ decision of April 13, 1982 (Digest 14,933) vacating an alleged violation of 3706(b) (backup warning device).
The Appeals Board first considered in detail a series of jurisdictional and constitutional arguments raised by Employer or on its behalf (by the California Trucking Association or CTA, an organization of independent truckers, as amicus curiae). These ranged from an assertion that the cab in which a truck driver sits is not a workplace,
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