Summary of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated April 1, 1993, Docket No. 92-R1D5-653 (Healdsburg, CA). Dennis M. Sullivan, Administrative Law Judge. For Employer: Clinton Folger, Partner. For DOSH: Ray Barkley, Associate Safety Engineer.
Three general violations were issued to Employer following an accident in which two employees were injured when they rolled a tractor down an embankment. Penalties totaling $435 were proposed.
Rollover Protective Structures (3651(a)). General violation and $175 penalty affirmed. The safety order called for ROPS on all agricultural and industrial tractors manufactured after October 25, 1976. An agricultural tractor is a two-
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