Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated May 29, 1990, Docket Nos. 90-R3D1-058 and 059 (Tustin, CA). Manual M. Melgoza, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Gerald A. Nicoll, President/CEO. For DOSH: William Loupe, Associate CSE.
Two violations were affirmed: one regulatory, with $250 statutory penalty, and one serious, with $550 penalty.
Excavation Permits, Required for Trenches Five Feet or More Deep (341(a)(1)). Regulatory violation affirmed, with $250 penalty. Employer, a geotechnical consulting firm, was cited after two of its geologists were injured in the cave-in of a trench, 12 feet deep, while they logged soil samples.
Section 341(a) req
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