Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated July 26, 1990, Docket No. 90-R1D5-222 (Saratoga, CA). Dennis M. Sullivan, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Michael N. Kirkley, General Manager. For DOSH: Stephan A. Williams, Associate Safety Engineer.
An alleged repeat/general violation of 1541(b)(1) (shoring, sloping and benching systems) was reduced to general; a proposed $350 penalty was vacated.
Employer was installing a sewer force main. An employee entered the trench, which was more than five feet deep, at a time when one of the hydraulic speed shores had been removed for replacement (apparently because it was leaking). Removal of the shore resul
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