& ENGINEERS
Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated April 29, 1987, Docket No. 86-R2D1-1258 (West Sacramento, CA). Robert W. Farnsworth, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Steven R. Moore, President. For DOSH: Robert W. Hackbart, Associate CSE.
An alleged serious violation of 2320.3(a) (energized equipment) was reduced to general. (The safety order was subsequently repealed but reenacted in substance under 2320.3.)
Employer failed "to insure that an employee treated an electrical system as energized until it had been tested or otherwise proven to be de-energized." A journeyman electrician cut into an energized 277-volt line. He apparently was
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