Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated May 8, 1987, Docket No. 87-R3D5-018 (Anaheim, CA). Ronald F. Peters, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Philip Arciero Jr., chief financial officer. For DOSH: Philip Valenti Jr., Associate CSE.
A serious violation of 1599(d) (flagging garments) was affirmed, with $350 penalty. An employee was directing traffic in a busy street without wearing the required orange flagging garments. It was no defense that Employer provided such garments; it was required to enforce the wearing of them.
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