Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated February 9, 1987, Docket No. 86-R1D4-814 (Fremont, CA). Elise Manders, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: John Armanino, Attorney. For DOSH: Patrick Bell, CSE.
A general violation of 5153(g) (ventilation and personal protective equipment for spray painting operations) was affirmed. "(T)he site is an automobile manufacturing plant. The citation alleged that an `employee was observed during a spray painting operation standing downstream of an auto body being painted without using respiratory protective equipment.'" The abatement requirement--use of respirators during paint touch-up operations when employees
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