Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated February 11, 1986, Docket No. 85-R5D4-657 (Ventura, CA). Gerald Winerman, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Robert W. Blois, Vice President. For DOSH: Dwight Goossen, Associate CSE.
A repeat/serious violation of 1540(d) (all excavations) was affirmed, with $1,000 penalty.
Excavations, Unshored, Violative Depth Not Altered by Employee Standing on Raised Object. An employee worked in a trench 6-1/2 to nine feet deep. It had no shoring, sloping, or other approved protection against moving earth, as required in excavations five or more feet deep. At issue were existence of the serious violation and propriety
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