Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated March 25, 1991, Docket No. 90-R4D5-1157 (Oxnard, CA). Jacqueline S. Drucker, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Fred W. Hanson, Partner. For DOSH: George R. MacDonald, Associate Safety Engineer.
An alleged regulatory violation of 341(a)(1) (permit regulations) was vacated, with proposed $250 penalty.
Employer, a construction partnership, did not obtain a Cal-OSHA permit, required for construction of "trenches or excavations which are 5 feet or deeper and into which a person is required to descend," until after completion of the job in connection with which it was cited. The excavation (part of a parking lo
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