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SECRETARY OF LABOR,             :
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          Complainant,          :
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          v.                    :   OSHRC Docket No.  99-0317
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RNC, INC.                       :
                                :
          Respondent.           :
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*_AMENDED
DECISION AND ORDER_*

After a compliance officer for the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration investigated a workplace fatality, that Agency issued
citations to Summit Habitats, Inc. and to the Respondent, RNC, Inc., for
the violations of safety regulations adopted by the Administration under
the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. To avoid duplicity of
hearings, the Secretary of Labor and RNC, Inc. filed a Stipulation of
Parties wherein it was agreed that the outcome of the Summit Habitats,
Inc. case would be dispositive of the citation issued to RNC, Inc.

The undersigned has issued his decision in the Summit Habitats, Inc. matter.

Based upon the terms of the Stipulation of Parties, the citation in the
RNC, Inc. matter is disposed in the following ruling:

Citation 1, Item 1 is VACATED.

Citation 1, Item 2 is AFFIRMED with a penalty of $2,100.00.

Citation 1, Item 3 is AFFIRMED with a penalty of $1,500.00.

 

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Sidney J. Goldstein
Judge, OSHRC

Dated: March 6, 2000

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