Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated July 25, 1990, Docket No. 90-R1D5-143 (Napa, CA). Dennis M. Sullivan, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Robert J. Allen, Attorney. For DOSH: Stephan A. Williams, Associate Safety Engineer.
A general violation of 4002(a) (guarding moving parts of machinery or equipment) was affirmed.
Employer operated an ultrasonic pipe testing facility. Pipe to be tested was placed on a large cart with train-type wheels, and moved on rails to various processing stations. As one of several safety and warning measures, Employer had mounted a spoke-like metal noisemaker on one of the cartwheels so that it repeatedly struck a
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