MORRIS PRECISION SHEET METAL
Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated May 22, 1987, Docket No. 87-R4D3-203 (Chatsworth, CA). Gerald Winerman, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Mike Nichols, Chief Financial Officer. For DOSH: Al Ghaffari, CSE.
A serious violation of 4214(a) (control reliability, power operated presses) was affirmed, with $200 penalty.
The hands of two press brake operators came within four inches of the points of operation of the 100-and 10-ton brakes they were operating. None of the safeguards referred to in 4214(a) were present: methods "to restrain the operator from inadvertently reaching into the point of operation, inhibit
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