Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated February 11, 1986, Docket Nos. 85-R5D4-436 and 437 (Camarillo, CA). Gerald Winerman, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Robert F. Taylor, President. For DOSH: Dwight Goossen, Associate CSE.
Three violations were affirmed: general ones of 1540(g)(1) (excavations) and 1515(a) (head protection), and a repeat/serious one of 1540(d) (excavations) with $800 penalty.
Trench, Access---Independent Employee Act, Defense Inapplicable to Foremen.
Employer, an underground pipeline excavator, was charged with three violations, all involving the same employee, a foreman in charge of a drain installation. The employee j
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