Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated February 5, 1980, Docket No. 79-R2D4-1080 (Tracy, CA). Adolf Loeb, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Lawrence A. Callahan, Industrial Relations Director. For DOSH: Melbourne I. Davis, CSE.
Reaching Into Operating Machinery Without the Use of Extension Tools, No Violation Citable Despite Danger to Employee. An alleged serious violation of 3314(a) was dismissed.
". . . Critical to the process is the cooling of the glass from its molten state, several thousand degrees Fahrenheit, to about 800 degrees Fahrenheit. This is done by blowing a cooling wind into the blank side from a wind stack. . .
"If the wind
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