COMPANY, INC.
Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated March 15, 1991, Docket No. 90-R3D5-1029 (Wilmington, CA). Manuel M. Melgoza, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: John Mahoney, Attorney. For DOSH: Ron E. Medeiros, Attorney.
A serious violation of 3466(h) (intermodal containers, marine terminal operations) was affirmed, with $2,000 penalty.
Employer was loading a ship by crane. A truck (with the driver in the cab) was accidentally lifted with its load (a metal container) and dropped to the dock by Employer's crane. The truck driver was seriously injured.
The metal container's locking mechanisms were not fully released from the truck and c
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