FARM LABOR CONTRACTOR
Summary of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated May 2, 1994, Docket Nos. 93-R2D3-1203 and 1204 (Yuba City, CA). Amos P. Freeman, Administrative Law Judge. For Employer: Joyce Francis, Accountant. For DOSH: John Macfarlane, Associate Safety Engineer.
Employer was hired to prune upper limbs of walnut trees. It utilized a mobile pruning tower capable of reaching 25 feet and a five-foot-long metallic hand held hydraulic lopper. An employee was seriously injured when he made contact with a 12,000 volt energized power line above the tree he was pruning. The Division inspected following notification of the accident and cited for two general a
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