Summary of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated December 28, 1992, Docket No. 92-R3D1-179 (Huntington Beach, CA). Ashaki A. Kone', Administrative Law Judge. For Employer: Dennis Ray Vonlossberg, Owner. For DOSH: Katherine R. Wolff, Staff Counsel.
Employer, Independent Subcontractor v. Employee. Willful/serious violation and $12,000 penalty vacated.
A complaint led to inspection, and tagging as an imminent hazard, of scaffolding on which two employees worked on mansard-style roofing at an 18 foot height without proper guardrails or safety belts and lanyards for fall protection. When he returned to the site later the same day, the safety engineer found the two
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