Digest of COSHAB's Decision After Reconsideration dated August 17, 1987, Docket No. 85-R5D4-980. Elaine W. Donaldson, Chairman; L. A. Harrington and Michael R. Monagan, Members.
The Appeals Board affirmed the ALJ decision of July 23, 1986 (Digest 16,721). The Board denied Employer's appeal from a serious violation of 1671(a) (safety nets).
Section 1671(a) requires perimeter safety nets at elevations of 25 feet or more "when the use of safety belts and lifelines or more conventional types of protection are clearly impractical..."
Employer was installing a roof of wood panels on glu-lam beams. The first panel had been positioned but not yet secured in
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