20,274 Columbia Helicopters, Inc.

By: Cal-OSHA Decisions
29 COR 40-4695 [¶ 20,274]

LOGGING - STABILIZING LOGS DURING AND AFTER BUCKING
CAL. CODE REGS, tit. 8, § 6281(a) (2002) - While the safety order is ambiguous in part, it clearly requires working uphill from a log while bucking. This extends to working uphill of logs already bucked which may still roll. Employer's employee violated the requirement and was fatally injured, but it was not a serious violation because Employer proved it did not know and could not have learned of the violation with reasonable diligence.

Summary of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated April 19, 2002, Docket No.

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