Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated July 13, 1990, Docket No 90-R2D3-161 (Fall River Mills, CA). Amos P. Freeman, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Kenneth Fletcher, President. For DOSH: John "Jack" MacFarlane, Associate CSE.
A serious violation of 6328(f) (logging: yarding and swinging) was affirmed, with $600 penalty.
A rigging-slinger working for Employer as a foreman was killed during removal of a 35' 10" log from a fallen yellow pine. He was standing 35 to 36 feet from the point where cables were used to pull the log clear of the pine stump. Initially he had stood behind a dead fir tree, but for unknown reasons, stepped out from behind
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