RENTALS, INC.
Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated February 13, 1986, Docket No. 84-R5D4-1117 (Huntington Beach, CA). Ronald F. Peters, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Robert D. Peterson, Attorney. For DOSH: John Fiddes, Graduate Legal Assistant.
An alleged serious violation of 1637(a) (scaffolds) was vacated, with proposed $100 penalty.
Scaffolds, Required Where Work Surface Inadequate, Lack of Proof Width Inadequate. An employee was injured in a fall from the top of an air compressor. The cited safety order requires use of a scaffold where work cannot be done safely from permanent or solid construction at least 20 inches wide. The cita
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