GREAT WESTERN DRYWALL
Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated April 9, 1991, Docket Nos. 90-R3D3-1245 and 1246 (Riverside, CA). Jacqueline S. Drucker, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Charles Duggan, Executive Vice President. For DOSH: Lonnie Kobus, Associate Safety Engineer.
Two violations were affirmed--one regulatory and one serious, the latter with $2,000 penalty.
Serious Injury, Failure to Report (342(a)). Employer, a plastering contractor, did not report a serious injury. An employee broke both wrists in a fall, and was hospitalized for 3-1/2 days. Employer was not entitled to rely on the fire department (which transported the injured
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