Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated July 31, 1990, Docket No. 90-R4D4-316 (Walnut, CA). Jonah Lebell, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Ray Ellis, Vice President-Construction. For DOSH: Allan Coie, Staff Counsel.
A serious violation of 4999(g) (handling loads) was affirmed, with $750 penalty.
Employer, an electrical contractor, was installing an underground cement vault at a hospital under construction. The bottom half of the vault was being lowered into a manhole by a truck crane. To steady the vault and guide it into place, an employee rode in it as it was being lowered. The crane cable broke when the vault was one or two feet from the b
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