Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated May 3, 1988, Docket Nos. 87-R4D5-740 thru 744 (Ventura, CA). Adolf Loeb, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Ordale B. Johnson, President. For DOSH: Jacqueline Schauer, Counsel.
Of five alleged serious violations, three were vacated and two (with total penalties of $495) were affirmed. All charges involved one ladder scaffold, from which an employee had fallen. It was made by placing a 2" x 10" x 8' plank, one end on the cross-piece above the topmost step of a stepladder, and the other end on a balcony. The plank was 11 feet, 4 inches above a concrete pad.
Charges and dispositions were:
1637(b) (scaffolds
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