Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated April 10, 1991, Docket No. 90-R2D6-1191 (Bakersfield, CA). Ashaki A. Kone', Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Daniel L. Ingoglia, Attorney. For DOSH: Wade E. DeVries Jr., Compliance Safety Engineer.
A serious violation of 3328(g) (machinery and equipment) was affirmed, with $260 penalty.
Employer, an oil well servicing company, furnished the elevators used to install casing in a drill rig at an oil lease site. Employees of this Employer and Gary Drilling Co. were working on the rig when an elevator came open and dropped an 1800-pound section of casing, seriously injuring a Gary Drilling employee and expos
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