Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated November 16, 1990, Docket No. 90-R1D1-805 (South San Francisco, CA). Amos P. Freeman, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Jonathan Fairbanks, Branch Manager. For DOSH: Jonathan S. Rossen, Associate Industrial Hygienist.
A general violation of 5208(g)(1)(A) (asbestos monitoring) was affirmed.
Employer was supervising another employer's asbestos removal operation. Employer's project manager, whose duties took him frequently into asbestos containment areas on the 10th and 33rd floors at the site, did not monitor his breathing zone for airborne asbestos fibers. This is required when an employee may be exposed
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