Digest of COSHAB's Decision After Reconsideration dated September 2, 1998, Docket Nos. 93-R3D3-032 to 035. James P. Gazdecki, Chairman; Bill Duplissea and Bryan E. Carver, Members.
The Appeals Board affirmed in part and reversed in part the ALJ decision of January 12, 1994 [Digest 18,467], which had denied Employer's appeals from two repeat/serious and two serious violations related to trenches, affirming penalties totaling $18,750.
The Division inspected Employer's job site in response to a complaint and found a laborer in a vertical-sided, unshored trench, straddling a PVC pipe. After the employee left the trench, the safety engineer, together with
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