Summary of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated October 20, 1993, Docket No. 92-R2D1-1711 (Sacramento, CA). Dennis M. Sullivan, Administrative Law Judge. For Employer: Robert D. Peterson, Attorney. For DOSH: A. Lennox Welsh, Staff Counsel.
Investigation of an accident led to citation for general violation of 3210(a). Because Employer is a public agency, no penalty was proposed.
Guardrails, Open Sides of Elevated Work Areas (3210(a)). General violation affirmed. Employer was cited because an employee worked from the top of a trailer-mounted water tank, 92 inches above the ground, which had no guardrails for fall protection. He had climbed to the curved top of
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