17,279 J. W. Bailey Construction Co.

Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated July 25, 1988, Docket Nos. 87-R4D5-588 and 589 (Santa Barbara, CA). Jonah Lebell, Administrative Law Judge.

For Employer: Pat Collins, General Superintendent. For DOSH: Katherine Wolff, Staff Counsel.

Employer was cited for serious violations of 1645(a)(1) and 1646(b), both relating to scaffolds, and assessed a proposed civil penalty of $1,000. Employer contested only the penalty amounts.

1645(a)(1) (scaffold beams and planking). "The evidence established that the Employer's employees were permitted to work on a scaffold plank that was subject to falling in due to the space between the horizontal beams supporti