17,483 Pacific Bell

By: Cal-OSHA Decisions

Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated September 13, 1990, Docket No. 90-R2D3-494 (Chico, CA). Dennis M. Sullivan, Administrative Law Judge.

For Employer: Ben H. Lyon, Attorney. For DOSH: Gary Robeson, District Manager.

An alleged general violation of 2340.13 (mounting and cooling of electrical equipment) was vacated.

A junction box for telephone lines was not secured to the concrete pad on which it was mounted. However, the Division failed to establish, as required, that any employee had been exposed to the hazard within six months before issuance of the citation.

The only direct evidence of exposure was the testimony of an employee who had gone

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