Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated September 12, 1986, Docket No. 85-R1D3-1855 (Cupertino, CA). Dennis M. Sullivan, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Wayne A. McFadden, Attorney. For DOSH: Helen Hoban Rogers, Graduate Legal Assistant.
A violation of 3314(a) (cleaning, repairing and adjusting prime movers, machinery and equipment) was reduced from serious to general.
Elevator, De-energizing Required During Servicing--Employer, Knowledge of Condition Not Established--Independent Employee Action, Defense Rejected.
An employee, sent to service four electro-hydraulic elevators, was crushed under one of them and died. Investigation establishe
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