Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated February 13, 1987, Docket No. 86-R2D3-1266 (Redding, CA). Robert W. Farnsworth, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Vance Pierce, Owner. For DOSH: Gary Robeson, CSE.
A serious violation of 6328(f) (logging) was affirmed, with $225 penalty. An employee was killed by a rolling log that slipped out of the choker with which it was being moved. The safety order requires that, in operations of this kind, "until a signal to go ahead is given, all workers shall stand clear of the area that is affected..." The employee was in the area affected or he would not have been struck. Evidence of the probability of serious i
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