Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated June 11, 1990, Docket Nos. 89-R4D5-344 thru 346 (Calimesa, CA). Ronald F. Peters, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Robert D. Peterson, Attorney. For DOSH: Margaret Cloudt, Staff Counsel.
Of three serious violations charged, two were affirmed (with $330 in penalties) and one was vacated, with proposed penalty of $30. (See also Digest 17,410, above.)
Excavations, Five or More Feet Deep, Protection from Moving Earth (1540(d)). Serious violation affirmed, with $300 penalty. An employee (Employer's job superintendent in the burying of a sewer pipe) worked in a part of the excavation that was at a six-foot de
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