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Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated April 17, 1987, Docket No. 87-R3D4-136 (Norwalk, CA). Adolf Loeb, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Victor Medina, President. For DOSH: Chuck Cox, CSE.
A serious violation of 1540(d) (excavations) was affirmed; the proposed $410 penalty was reduced to $300.
Employer was laying underground water and steam pipes for a cogeneration plant at a state hospital. The site was contiguous to a street; Employer had broken through the paved surface of a parking lot and excavated the underlying earth.
On the inspection date, "a large quantity of material, piping, tools and equipment for the installation of the
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