Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated June 19, 1985, Docket No. 84-R3D3-1021 (Rosemead, CA). Ronald F. Peters, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Howard L. Collins, Senior Counsel. For DOSH: Allan Coie, Staff Counsel.
A willful/regulatory violation of 324(a) was affirmed, with $185 penalty.
Reporting Fatal or Serious Injury, Must Be Immediate, Requirement Violated by Policy of Notifying Family First and Delegating Reporting Authority to Employer's Claim Department.
An employee fell 23 feet from a power pole between 9:30 and 9:40 a.m., and died soon thereafter. The Division received reports from the decedent's union local and the coroner's o
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