Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated March 6, 1991, Docket No. 90-R1D2-986 (Santa Clara, CA). Amos P. Freeman, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Ben H. Lyon, Staff Attorney. For DOSH: Ralph Allen, Acting District Manager.
An alleged general violation of 3273(a) (work area) was vacated.
The citation was issued after the Division's investigation of a tripping accident in which an employee's knee and leg were injured. The injured worker and two other employee witnesses attributed the accident to the deteriorated and uneven condition of a carpet strip. Other witnesses disagreed.
"Although the Division alleged that the carpet strip had been a t
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