Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated June 25, 1985, Docket No. 85-R3D2-477 (Santee, CA). Jonah Lebell, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Bing Drastrup, Vice President. For DOSH: Allan Coie, Staff Counsel.
A serious violation of 1540(d) (excavations) was affirmed, with $250 penalty.
Excavations, Unprotected, Division's Later Permission to Resume Work Not a Defense to Citation. Employees were working near the face of an unshored, 12-foot excavation that had been dug in preparation for underground garage construction. Employer offered evidence that, after the citation was issued, the Division granted permission to resume the work (which had be
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