Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated April 28, 1986, Docket Nos. 85-R1D5-825 and 826 (Petaluma, CA). Amos P. Freeman, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Wallace J. Zavattero, Consulting Safety Engineer. For DOSH: Joel D. Halverson, Associate CSE.
A general violation of 1540(g)(2) and a serious one of 1540(d) (excavations) were affirmed, the latter with $250 penalty.
Excavations, Access and Egress, Pipe Not Acceptable Means of--Trench, Utility, Trench for Sewer Line Does Not Constitute. Employer was installing a sewer pipe. The facts of the 1540(g)(2) charge were undisputed: that "two employees were working in a trench that exceeded 4 feet i
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