Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated May 18, 1990, Docket No. 89-R1D3-465 (Redwood City, CA). Dennis M. Sullivan, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Harry Turiello, President. For DOSH: Brian Brooks, Associate CSE.
A serious violation of 1675(j) (ladders) was affirmed, with $200 penalty.
The safety order provides: "Portable ladders in use shall be tied, blocked, or otherwise secured to prevent their being displaced."
Employer was a plumbing subcontractor at a construction site. An employee was seriously injured in the fall of a portable ladder that consisted only of the upper half of an aluminum extension ladder. This section of ladder was
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