Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated December 12, 1985, Docket Nos. 85-R3D2-1281 and 1282 (San Diego, CA). Jonah Lebell, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Robert D. Peterson, Attorney. For DOSH: Natalie Klein, Associate CSE.
Serious violations of 1644(a)(4)(A) and (B) (metal scaffolds) were affirmed, with total penalties of $220.
Scaffolds, Metal, Required Ties to Structure. Employer was cited after an employee was injured in the collapse of a scaffold. Section 1644(a)(4)(A) requires that the first tie of a metal scaffold to a building or structure be made when the platform height is four times the least base dimension. That dimension was th
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