Digest of COSHAB's Decision After Reconsideration dated August 23, 1999, Docket No. 95-R6D2-1378. James P. Gazdecki, Chairman; Bill Duplissea, Member.
The Appeals Board reversed the ALJ decision of May 14, 1996 [Digest 18,966], and granted Employer's appeal.
Employer, a scaffold subcontractor on the Los Angeles Metro Rail project, was inspected and cited for two violations, one regulatory and one serious, which it appealed. The ALJ permitted the Division to amend the safety order charged in the serious violation from 1644(c)(6) [scaffold uplift protection by means of lock pins or equivalent] to 1644(c)(5) [not using couplings or stacking pins to prope
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