Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated July 24, 1990, Docket No. 90-R2D3-278 (Redding, CA). Amos P. Freeman, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Kenneth L. Poole, President. For DOSH: Dennis Barker, Associate Safety Engineer.
A general violation of 3277(d)(3) (fixed ladders) was affirmed, with modification of the abatement time from 30 days to six months.
Employer, a trucking firm that hauled sawmill waste to processing plants, owned 75 to 100 trailer trucks equipped by the manufacturer with ladders having rungs 10 inches long. The safety order requires that fixed ladders on equipment have rungs at least 16 inches long.
Nothing in the safety
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