Digest of COSHAB's Decision dated April 17, 1974, Docket No. 74-R5D1-027. Ford B. Ford, Chairman; Monroe Browne and Gerald Shearin, Members.
TIRE INFLATION EQUIPMENT -- SERIOUS VS NONSERIOUS VIOLATION -- PENALTY DETERMINATION FACTORS. The Board amended the citation, reducing the violation from serious to nonserious and the proposed civil penalty from $600 to $100. The standard allegedly violated required a clip-on type chuck to be used on air hoses operated in conjunction with a tire changing device (Sec. 3325). The employer contested the existence of the violation and the amount of the proposed penalties. In modifying the citation from serious to no
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