Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated May 28, 1987, Docket No. 86-R2D3-1653 (Redding, CA). Amos P. Freeman, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Richard C. Guiton, President. For DOSH: Dennis Barker, Associate CSE.
An alleged general violation of 3203(a)(2) (accident prevention program) was vacated. An employee was injured when he fell into the deep end of an empty swimming pool. (The pool was under construction.) The employee was smoothing concrete decking, 31 inches wide, that had been laid around the pool. To do this, he stood on an 11-inch coping that had been placed around the pool on the water side. The work could have been done from the ot
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