Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated April 11, 1988, Docket Nos. 85-R5D1-1216 thru 1218 (Glendale, CA). Adolf Loeb, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Eugene McMenamin Jr., Attorney. For DOSH: Stanley Avnaim, Staff Counsel.
An alleged willful/serious violation of 2935(b)(2) (work near energized lines) was reduced to serious. The proposed $18,750 penalty was reduced to $1,000.
Classification of the violation as willful, and the penalty amount based on that classification, were the only issues on appeal. Employer admitted allowing an employee to come within six feet of energized 4500-volt conductors, and further admitted that the violation was
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