Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated December 18, 1986, Docket No. 86-R3D2-1111 (San Marcos, CA). Jonah Lebell, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Steven E. Hendley, Vice President. For DOSH: Ronald Martin, Assistant CSE.
A serious violation of 1540(d) (excavations) was affirmed, with $100 penalty.
Excavations, Protection Absent, Footings Dug for Concrete Forms at Base of Vertical Embankment.
Employer was building a commercial structure that was to have concrete tilt-up walls. Employees were digging footings for concrete forms at the base of a vertical embankment 16-1/2 to 17-1/2 feet high. The embankment (excavated to OSHA specifications a
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