Summary of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated November 24, 1992, Docket No. 92-R4D5-209 (Santa Barbara, CA). Dennis M. Sullivan, Administrative Law Judge. For Employer: Barry Gordon, Owner. For DOSH: Donald Teague, Compliance Safety Engineer.
Employer was cited following a compliant inspection for regulatory violation of 341(a)(1) with proposed $250 penalty for failure to obtain an excavation permit. It was the construction manager for the owners of a hillside home project involving excavation to provide a level building site, which left exposed cut faces 20 feet high in many places. Employees of two or three contractors worked at the site near the cut face
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