Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated March 5, 1987, Docket No. 86-R2D2-1299 (Concord, CA). Amos P. Freeman, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Ronald M. Pryor, President. For DOSH: Frank E. Humphreys, Associate CSE.
An alleged serious violation of 1621(a) (railings and toeboards) was vacated. The Division established by its engineer's testimony and by photographs that two stairway landings (repaired by the following day) lacked top and midrails as required. However, employee exposure was not established. The admission of Employer's foreman that employees had used the landings did not, in itself, establish that the landings were used while they
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