Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated April 6, 1987, Docket Nos. 86-R1D4-1511 thru 1513 (Dixon, CA). Dennis M. Sullivan, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Henry E. Rodegerdts, Attorney. For DOSH: Helen Hoban Rogers, legal staff.
Two excavation safety violations were affirmed, but one was reduced as to classification and penalty. Charges and dispositions were:
1540(g)(2) (excavations); repeat/general violation affirmed. Employees were working in an 11-foot trench, on a concrete pipe-extruding machine four to four and one-half feet high. The trench was more than four feet deep, thus requiring "a safe means of access...located so as to require
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