Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated July 8, 1985, Docket No. 84-R4D3-1017 (Long Beach, CA). Douglas M. Phillips, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Terry J. Coniglio, Attorney. For DOSH: Allan L. Coie, Staff Counsel.
An alleged serious violation of 4906(b) (crane truck wheel guards and railsweeps), with $280 proposed penalty, was vacated.
Cranes, Gantry, Wheel Guards to be Maintained as Specified---Safety Order, Inapplicable Where Equipment Not Proved to be Gantry Crane. An employee was injured when he was hit by what the Division described as a gantry crane and his leg was pinned under one of its tires. The cited safety order provides:
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