Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated April 17, 1991, Docket No. 90-R2D4-1163 and 1164 (Stockton, CA). Dennis M. Sullivan, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Robert Peterson, Attorney. For DOSH: Brian Young, Associate Safety Engineer.
An alleged serious violation of 4994(b) (crane operating rules) was reduced to general. A proposed $1,600 penalty was vacated.
Employer had leased a mobile hydraulic crane for use at a construction site. The crane tipped over while in use, pinning an employee against the ground and killing him. Employer was cited for using the crane without its outriggers laterally extended, when this was required by the weight o
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