Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated November 18, 1977, Docket Nos. 77-R6D5-733 and 734. Gerald Winerman, Administrative Law Judge.
For App: Earl P. Willens, Attorney at Law. For DIS: StephenS. Handin, Staff Counsel.
Burden of Proof, Mists, Fumes, Gases, etc. An employee of the Appellant was killed in an explosion in its dry color mixing room. The Division alleged that the Appellant failed to use adequate dust collectors that would have prevented concentrations of aluminum dust. It was the Division's theory that high concentration levels of various chemical dusts used in Appellant's operation caused the explosion. Appellant had been charged with
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