17,481 Stater Bros. Markets

By: Cal-OSHA Decisions

Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated September 7, 1990, Docket No. 90-R3D3-438 (Colton, CA). Ashaki A. Kone', Administrative Law Judge.

For Employer: Donald I. Baker, Senior Vice President. For DOSH: Joan G. Nareau, Staff Counsel.

A general violation of 3664(a) (forklift operating rules) was affirmed.

Employer, a supermarket chain, was charged with allowing an inadequately trained employee to drive a rear-entry, side-operated, stand-up forklift. He apparently lost control of the lift, and was killed when it struck a vertical column in Employer's warehouse.

Employer witnesses referred to a 40-hour forklift driver training program as recommended o

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