Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated April 11, 1979, Docket Nos. 78-R4D4-1483 and 1484. Jonah Lebell, Administrative Law Judge.
For App: Ramon Gomez, Attorney. For DOSH: Frank J. Kielian, CSE.
Two serious violations were established. A penalty of $225 was affirmed for each violation.
"The evidence presented established that one of Employer's managers directed employees to use a plastic grinding machine with unguarded intake rollers (4187(a)) and whose stopping control could not be activated from the operator's working position (4000(a)). The lack of a guard protecting the rollers created a condition under which there was a substantial probability
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