Digest of COSHAB's Decision After Reconsideration dated September 28, 1987, Docket No. 85-R1D4-1917. Elaine W. Donaldson, Chairman; L. A. Harrington and Michael R. Monagan, Members.
The Appeals Board reversed the ALJ decision of October 8, 1986 (Digest 16,839). The Board granted Employer's appeal from an alleged repeat/serious violation of 1670(a) (safety belts and lifelines).
Two employees were spreading decking and tack welding it at the sixth-floor perimeter of a building under construction. They were not tied off. Each spreading-and-tacking operation took "several seconds." The foreman told the Division's engineer that perimeter rope had been o
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