DEPARTMENT OF WATER & POWER
Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated February 9, 1989, Docket No. 88-R4D3-043 (Los Angeles, CA). Jonah Lebell, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Ned Flusty, Assistant City Attorney. For DOSH: Ron E. Medeiros, Staff Counsel.
Two general violations of the Tunnel Safety Orders were affirmed.
Training, Safety Precautions for New Employees (8407(a)).
The safety order provides: "When an employee is first engaged the person in charge...shall instruct the employee in the hazards of the job and the safe performance of his duties."
Employer's associate safety engineer was required to enter a potentially gassy tunnel dai
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