Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated February 6, 1986, Docket No. 85-R2D3-968 (Willow Creek, CA). Elise Manders, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Roger Williams, Independent Contractor. For DOSH: David Gauthier, Associate CSE.
A serious violation of 6275(b) (falling trees) was affirmed, with $175 penalty.
Trees, Falling, Protection of Employees During. The cited safety order requires that logging employees known as fallers and buckers not work "near any running lines, guylines, or other units of the operation so that they could endanger themselves or other employees."
Employees were working in a landing adjacent to the tree and were in d
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