Summary of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated February 4, 1999, Docket Nos. 94-R3D1-1205 to 1208 (Fountain Valley, CA). Ashaki A. Hesson, Administrative Law Judge. For Employer: Thomas F. Nixon, Attorney. For DOSH: Leonard Strom, Staff Counsel.
Employer was a combination of nine agencies (Districts) who jointly owned a waste treatment plant. During the February 1994 installation of a diversion gate valve in a concrete channel that transported partially treated wastewater, a fatal accident occurred and the Division conducted an inspection.
Employer was cited for four serious violations for subsections of 5157 (confined spaces): failure to post danger signs (
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