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By: Cal-OSHA Decisions

Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated February 21, 1991, Docket No. 90-R3D3-757 (San Bernardino, CA). Jacqueline S. Drucker, Administrative Law Judge.

For Employer: Patrick T. Hopkins, President. For DOSH: Lonnie Kobus, Associate Safety Engineer.

A general and a regulatory violation were affirmed, with a $250 penalty for the latter.

Elevators, for Hoisting Workers (1630(a)). General violation.

Employer was constructing a building 65 feet, 8 inches high without providing a construction elevator. One is required if a building is 60 feet or more in height.

It was not a defense that Employer had committed the same violation in erecting another, nea

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