Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated September 20, 1990, Docket No. 90-R2D1-535 (West Sacramento, CA). Dennis M. Sullivan, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Daniel J. Coyle, Attorney. For DOSH: Nicholas A. Champlin, Attorney.
An alleged serious violation of 3704 (securing loads) was vacated, with proposed $2,000 penalty.
Employer, a trucking company, was cited for not securing part of a load against dangerous displacement. A driver was seriously injured when a 19,000-pound crated auger (the top one of two stacked together) came loose and pinned him between the truck and some pallets he was stacking. The truck was parked for delivery of the
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