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Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated April 23, 1987, Docket No. 86-R4D5-1666 (Santa Barbara, CA). Douglas M. Phillips, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Craig S. Aman, Safety Consultant. For DOSH: George R. MacDonald.
An alleged general violation of 1670(a) (safety belts and lifelines) was vacated. Employer, a fumigator and pest control operator, was cited after an accident. An employee, who was not tied off, fell while laying tarpaulins over the roof of a two-story house preparatory to fumigating it. The house was not under construction.
The Construction Safety Orders were inapplicable, and there was no other safety order to c
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