CALISTOGA YARD
Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated October 20, 1989, Docket No. 89-R1D5-040 (Napa, CA). Adolf Loeb, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Ronald L. Briggs, Attorney. For DOSH: Nicholas A. Champlin, Attorney.
A serious violation of 1598(a) (traffic controls) was affirmed without penalty. (Public sector employers are exempt from penalties.)
Two employees were assigned to remove debris from the shoulder of a heavily traveled public road and carry it to a truck for removal. The job took about 15 minutes, during which each employee had to step briefly onto the road itself.
None of the traffic controls and warning measures prescri
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