EXCAVATIONS AND TRENCHES - PROTECTION FROM CAVE-INS
Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, § 1541.1(a)(1) (2003) - Employer was in serious violation of the requirement to provide cave-in protection when its foreman entered a 13-foot-deep trench with vertical walls, but the violation was not properly classified as willful because the Division did not prove that a similar violation had occurred the week before.
VIOLATION - WILLFUL/SERIOUS
The Division did not establish that a second occurrence of a violation within a week amounted to a willful violation because the first