Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated February 28, 1986, Docket No. 85-R1D1-1021 (San Jose, CA). Elise Manders, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Thomas Ebert, Vice President. For DOSH: Helen Hoban Rogers, Attorney.
A violation of 1540(d) (excavations) was reduced from serious to general, vacating the proposed $225 penalty.
Excavations, Unshored and Otherwise Unprotected, Violation Reduced to General Where Employee Exposure Unknown and Not Reasonably Foreseeable.
"...The uncontroverted evidence established that an employee entered an excavation greater than five feet deep with virtually vertical walls not protected by any of the systems req
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