Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated March 14, 1991, Docket No. 90-R1D5-1121 (Santa Rosa, CA). Dennis M. Sullivan, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Clyde Smith, Owner. For DOSH: Gerald Lombardo, Associate Safety Engineer.
An alleged serious violation of 2946(b)(3) (cranes, boom-type lifting or hoisting equipment near high-voltage lines) was reduced to general. The proposed $450 penalty was vacated.
Employer was excavating a trench for a sewer line. While a large hydraulic shore was being lifted from the trench with a crane, the "horse head," a large metal housing at the tip of the boom, came within a prohibited distance of overhead 12,000-v
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