Digest of COSHAB's Decision After Reconsideration dated June 15, 1993, Docket No. 91-R2D2-858. Michael R. Monagan and Bill Duplissea, Members.
The Appeals Board affirmed the ALJ decision of June 5, 1992 (Digest 17,988), granting Employer's appeal from an alleged serious violation of 3310(d) and the $2,000 penalty. Reconsideration was on petition by the Division.
Employer was working as electrical contractor on a new Dow Chemical processing facility when a pressure relief valve on a tank across the street released a cloud of gas containing chlorine and it blew into the employees' work area. The employees were not wearing respirators, but carried half
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