Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated December 10, 1986, Docket Nos. 86-R2D3-1144 and 1198 (Spokane, WA). Dennis M. Sullivan, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Thomas B. Tilford, President. For DOSH: Keith Smith, Associate CSE.
An alleged serious violation of 2940.7(b)(5) was reduced to general.
Electrical, Lift Truck Contact With Energized Line--Serious Violation, Classification, Foreman's Absence Alone Does Not Prove Lack of Employer Diligence.
Employer, a utility line contractor, was installing a power line. A crew of three employees, two of them in a manlift bucket at the end of a truck-mounted boom, were stringing deenergized wire. The
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