Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated September 25, 1986, Docket Nos. 86-R3D3-321 thru 325 (Ontario, CA). Jonah Lebell, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Randall J. Pitre, Attorney. For DOSH: Vincent A. Ruiz, Graduate Legal Assistant.
Alleged serious violations of 5208(c)(1) and (2) (asbestos) were vacated.
Asbestos, To Be Worked Wet Insofar as Practicable: Test of Practicability Is Based on Demands of Work Environment, Task and Processes, Not Containment of Airborne Fibers.
Employer was dismantling eight boilers in a steel plant. It was removing and cleaning up asbestos insulation material, which it was cited for not working wet "insofar a
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