28 COR 40-4356 [20,012]
EXCAVATIONS - PROTECTION FROM CAVE-INS
CAL. CODE REGS, tit. 8, 1541.1(a)(1) (2001) - Employer permitted two employees to work in an excavation that did not have sufficient cave-in protection. The violation was serious, based on its plain-view condition and the serious harm potential from a cave-in.
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Summary of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated April 5, 2001, Docket No. 00-R3D1-1759 (Fontana, CA).
Jack L. Hesson, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: James T. Dufour, Attorney.
For DOSH: Albert Cardenas, Staff Counsel.
Employer, a boring contractor, was cited after an inspection of an excavation it was working on in conj
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