27 COR 40-4021 [19,758R]
DEFENSE - INDEPENDENT EMPLOYEE ACTION
Employer's Injury and Illness Prevention Program was not well-devised, one of the five required elements to establish this affirmative defense.
VIOLATION - SERIOUS CLASSIFICATION
Inappropriate where the employer could not have foreseen that the fatally-injured worker would exceed his work assignment and perform other work in a dangerous manner. Reduced to a high-gravity general violation.
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Digest of COSHAB's Decision After Reconsideration dated February 16, 2000, Docket No. 94-R4D3-3076.
James P. Gazdecki, Chairman; Bill Duplissea, Member.
The Appeals Board reversed in part and
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