Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated January 28, 1987, Docket Nos. 86-R2D5-1343 thru 1345 (Redwood City, CA). Adolf Loeb, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Robert Peterson, attorney. For DOSH: Robert Lawsen, CSE.
Of three alleged serious violations, two were vacated and the third was reduced to general. Charges and dispositions were:
1670(a) (safety belts and lifelines). The charge was vacated. Employees, attaching plywood sheets to wooden joists for a roof structure at a height of 17-1/2 feet, were not tied off. A line, running 80 feet from wall to wall, could have been installed for attaching safety belts, but the job came within the excep
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