Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated May 8, 1987, Docket No. 86-R3D5-1288 (Azusa, CA). Ronald F. Peters, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: George Cooke, President. For DOSH: Phil Valenti Jr., Associate CSE.
An alleged serious violation of 1540(d) (excavations) was reduced to general. A foreman entered a 15' x 15' boring pit momentarily to disconnect a crane cable from a concrete pipe section that had just been laid. He stood on the pipe, so was standing at an actual depth of about 11 feet. He was in the exact center of the pit. A steel shoring shield for employee protection was outside the pit; but without a second crane, it could not have be
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