COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA
Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated June 15, 1976, Docket No. 75-R4D3-700. Adolf Loeb, Administrative Law Judge.
[1] Confined Spaces, "Positive Means" of Preventing the Entry of Hazardous Materials (Defined as "negating human error") (5182(a)(2) construed)---[2] Judicial Notice, When Taken (376.3) This appeal from a nonserious violation of 5182(a)(2) was denied. The Appellant permitted its employees to conduct cleaning operations within a latex reactor (a tank 10 feet high by six feet in diameter) without disconnecting the filling lines or utilizing other positive means of preventing the hazardous raw materials from entering
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