Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated October 29, 1986, Docket No. 86-R1D3-1019 (So. San Francisco, CA). Elise Manders, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Thomas J. Henry, Owner. For DOSH: Al Tafazoli, Associate CSE.
A violation of 3664(a)(4) (forklift operating rules) was reduced from serious to general.
Forklift Operating Rules, Failure to Post and Enforce, Violation Inherently General, Not Serious. An employee was injured when he fell from a fork of a forklift while it was being driven. The cited safety order requires that employers both post and enforce a rule against riding the forks of a forklift. A "no riders" rule was posted but not e
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