12,300 Sonoma Saw, Inc.

By: Cal-OSHA Decisions

Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated December 1, 1977, Docket No. 77-R1D1-369. Ronald F. Peters, Administrative Law Judge.

For App: Gary L. Gustafson, President. For DIS: Paul S.Bethel, CSE.

Penalties, Lack of Exposure, Mitigation---Use of Instrumentality Limited to Corporate Officers. A proposed $600 penalty for a serious violation of 4185(a) was set aside.

"The Division, in its final argument, indicated that it felt that this particular employer was safety minded and that the proposed penalty did little to enhance the safety of Appellant's employees.

"In this case, the only persons operating the punch press were corporate officers who, had th

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