Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated April 17, 1986, Docket Nos. 85-R1D5-1025 and 1026 (San Francisco, CA). Amos P. Freeman, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Michael Carew, President. For DOSH: Stephan A. Williams, Associate CSE.
Two general violations and one regulatory were affirmed. An alleged serious violation was reduced to general. Charges and dispositions were:
1540(e)(1) (excavations): Employer constructs pipelines. On both sides of an eight-foot-deep excavation, spoil was piled less than two feet from the edge. A general violation was affirmed; Employer's defense was that, the spoil being "like dust," it was believed not to be haz
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