Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated December 2, 1986, Docket Nos. 86-R4D1-848 and 849 (Los Angeles, CA). Adolf Loeb, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Jim Weeks, branch manager, tenant division. For DOSH: Vincent Ruiz, graduate legal assistant.
Two asbestos violations, one general, one serious, were affirmed. However, the $1,000 proposed penalty for the serious violation was vacated.
Asbestos, Airborne, Employee Training Required.
Employer, an electrical contractor, was relocating light fixtures and switches on the 21st floor of a building. "Two employees...were exposed to a concentration of airborne asbestos, contained in a friable firep
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