Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated May 23, 1991, Docket No. 91-R5D2-135 (Walnut, CA). Ronald F. Peters, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: L. W. Brown, Vice President of J. F. Shea, Inc. For DOSH: Byron M. Ishkanian, Senior Safety Engineer.
An alleged serious violation of 8474(d) was vacated, along with the proposed $2,000 penalty.
Employer was engaged in the excavation of a nine-mile-long sewer tunnel. An electrical employee, who was working inside an electrical trailing unit situated between a detached segment car and the remainder of a muck train, was struck when the segment car, towed by an air tugger, moved into the trailing unit. The
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