Digest of COSHAB's Decision After Reconsideration dated January 23, 1980, Docket No. 77-R4D2-300 (South Gate, CA).
Guarding Machinery and Equipment, in Running Open Rolls, Where Hand Feeding Takes Place. The decision of the ALJ in this matter (Digest 12,086) was affirmed.
"It was established that Employer's rubber calendar (`(a) machine equipped with two or more metal rolls revolving in opposite directions and used for continuously sheeting or plying up rubber and plastics compounds and for frictioning or coating materials with rubber and plastics compounds' Section 4597(a)(2)) had a network of slack wires running diagonally around the machine. Thes
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