ALJ Decision in HCI Industrial & Marine Coatings, Inc. Becomes a Final Order of the Commission
On June 30, 2017, Complainant’s Portland Area Office received a report from Oregon OSHA (OR-OSHA) that one of Respondent’s employees fell while working on a barge in Portland, Oregon and sustained injuries requiring hospitalization. (Tr. 62–63). That same day, Compliance Safety and Health Officer (CSHO) Michael Potter was dispatched to the pier where the barge was located and began a three-day inspection of the worksite. (Tr. 62, 119-121). CSHO Potter learned that Respondent’s employee, [Redacted], was working inside the barge’s No. 1 port storage tank when he fell. (Stip. No. 13 at Tr. 44). He was not wearing fall protection at the time. (Stip. No. 15 at Tr. 45).