Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated May 31, 1991, Docket No. 91-R3D3-31 (La Habra, CA). Ashaki A. Kone', Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Theodore Wickman, Owner and President. For DOSH: Lonnie Kobus, Associate Safety Engineer.
A serious violation of 3657(a)(2) (elevating employees with lift trucks) was affirmed, with $1,200 penalty.
Employer, a steel fabricator, was working on a school under construction. It was cited for elevating an employee to a work location without having the work platform secured to the forks of the forklift that was being used to lift the employee.
The safety order requires that when employees are to be lifted wi
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