Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated December 30, 1986, Docket No. 86-R3D3-992 (Ontario, CA). Jonah Lebell, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Robert F. Downing, Attorney. For DOSH: Lonnie Kobus, Associate CSE.
An alleged serious violation of 3642(a)(1) (platform equipment) was vacated.
An employee fell from an elevated work platform while painting an airplane. The safety order requires in part "that a platform deck shall be equipped with a guardrail." Two employees testified that the guardrail was in place when the accident occurred--that the platform was jarred, that the employee stumbled and grabbed a safety chain attached to the guardrai
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