15,758 Val’s Plumbing & Heating, Inc.

Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's Decision dated May 30, 1984, Docket No. 83-R1D2-1222 (Salinas, CA). August F. Cetti, Administrative Law Judge.

For Employer: Val Roberti, President/Manager. For DOSH: Frank Morse, CSE.

This appeal was granted to the extent of allowing Employer to abate a serious violation of 4214(a) (guarding press brakes mechanically or hydraulically powered) by the alternate method provided in 4214(b)(9) rather than by point-of-operation guarding. Reasonableness of the changes required to abate was the only issue on appeal, the violation having been admitted and a $75 penalty paid.

Press Brakes, Point-of-Operation Guarding, Alternative Me