Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated December 26, 1986, Docket No. 86-R1D2-493 (Greenfield, CA). Elise Manders, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Cal B. Watkins Jr., Attorney. For DOSH: Thomas Meamber, Associate CSE.
An alleged serious violation of 3314(a) (cleaning, repairing and adjusting machinery, prime movers and equipment).
An employee was injured when the gate across the bottom of a paprika blender closed. The gate and the blender had separate switches, and the blender was locked out at the main panel. There was no way to disengage the power to the gate, nor was it mechanically locked or blocked. It moved and injured one employee whe
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