Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated September 29, 1986, Docket No. 86-R1D1-518 (Walnut Creek, CA). Robert W. Farnsworth, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Robert J. Moody, President. For DOSH: Armstrong Lum, CSE.
A serious violation of 1621(a) (railings and toeboards) was affirmed, with $150 penalty.
Guardrails, Absence. Employer, a tile subcontractor on a condominium project, was cited for having employees work on a ninth-floor deck which lacked a guardrail on an open side. An employee fell about 36 feet to the sixth-floor deck and was injured. According to some of the testimony, the employee had been at the perimeter of the deck during h
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