Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated March 12, 1991, Docket No. 90-R2D3-655 (San Jose, CA). Amos P. Freeman, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Robert D. Peterson, Attorney. For DOSH: John McFarlane, Associate Safety Engineer.
An alleged general violation of 1598(a) (traffic control for public streets and highways) was vacated.
At a site where Employer, an underground contractor, was working on a lawn sprinkler system, it had a backhoe loading dirt into a dump truck. The vehicles were in the adjacent street. The only traffic control was a sign reading "ROAD WORK AHEAD". The Division's engineer considered this inadequate traffic control for e
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