Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated March 16, 1987, Docket No. 86-R1D5-1415 (Petaluma, CA). Elise Manders, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Wallace J. Zavattero, Consulting Safety Engineer. For DOSH: Stephan A. Williams, Associate CSE.
A repeat/general violation of 1517(a) (foot protection) was affirmed. An employee operated a wacker-tamper (a gasoline-driven, compaction tool, with which he was compacting the fill in a trench area) without wearing hard-toed shoes or shoe covers. "Although the wacker-tamper normally hops forward, credible evidence established that it may bounce sideways or backwards. Thus it may land on the operator's foot..
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