CERTIFIED COATINGS
Summary of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated November 24, 1992, Docket Nos. 92-R4D5-094 and 095 (Concord, CA). Dennis M. Sullivan, Administrative Law Judge. For Employer: Robert Ikenberry, Safety Director. For DOSH: George MacDonald, Associate Safety Engineer.
Employer was the contractor engaged in sandblasting and coating the interior of a large water storage tank. An employee was seriously injured while sandblasting the middle of the inside of the tank roof from the top platform of a scaffold, 26 feet above the steel floor of the tank. The scaffold began to flex toward the tank walls, and the employee could not maintain his grip on a
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