Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated March 1, 1990, Docket No. 89-R1D3-236 (Whittier, CA). Amos P. Freeman, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Craig A. Fantozzi, Area Manager. For DOSH: A. Margaret Cloudt, Attorney at Law.
A general violation of 1509(b) (accident prevention program) was affirmed.
Employer was laying gas transmission pipe for PG&E. As a truckload of pipe was being unloaded by crane, a 7,200-pound length of pipe rolled off the trailer and killed an employee. The Division's investigation suggested that some of the pipe lengths had been inadequately secured.
Employer was cited for failing to include in its written Code of Safe
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