17,188 Los Angeles City Department

OF PUBLIC WORKS

Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated September 21, 1987, Docket No. 87-R4D2-028 (Los Angeles, CA). Adolf Loeb, Administrative Law Judge.

For Employer: Kenneth P. Sobel, Safety Administrator. For DOSH: Allan L. Coie, Staff Counsel.

An alleged serious violation of 1592(a) (warning methods) was vacated. Employer was charged with "failing to have a signal man in clear view of haulage vehicles to direct backing operations in congested areas or areas of high ambient noise which obscures audible alarms."

Two haulage vehicles--a 10-wheel dump truck and a paving machine--had just backed through the "tunnel" beneath an overpass when the t