17,079 Lee Bolin & Associates,

By: Cal-OSHA Decisions

INC.

Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated April 10, 1987, Docket No. 86-R4D3-1636 (Calabasas, CA). Gerald Winerman, Administrative Law Judge.

For Employer: Wayne E. Gibson, Vice President. For DOSH: Lindsay C. Ives, CSE.

A serious violation of 1670(a) (safety belts and lifelines) was affirmed, with $635 penalty. "(Section) 1670(a) requires approved safety belts and lifelines be worn by employees whose work exposes them to falling in excess of 15 feet from the perimeter of a structure. The uncontroverted testimony of the injured employee is that on several occasions on the day of his injury he worked at the edge of a roof, subject to a fail of 36

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