Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated November 13, 1990, Docket No. 90-R3D1-840 (Orange, CA). Manuel M. Melgoza, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Joe Alcaraz, Superintendent, and Arthur Alcaraz, Assistant Superintendent. For DOSH: Robert D. Klein, Associate Safety Engineer.
An alleged second repeat/serious violation of 1644(a)(6) (metal scaffolds) was vacated, with proposed $2,000 penalty.
The Division charged that Employer let an employee work on a 10-foot-high scaffold without end rails.
The employee in question, and officers of Employer, testified credibly that the employee in question was not doing lathing work from the scaffold as the
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