Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated February 14, 1980, Docket Nos. 79-R3D2-1462 and 1463 (Escondido, CA). Jonah Lebell, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: R. L. Peck, Vice President. For DOSH: Charles A. Fox, CSE.
Penalties, Asbestos Violations, Reduced. Serious violations of 5208(c)(1) and 5208(c)(2) were established. The proposed penalties were reduced.
Asbestos, Mixing.
"Section 5208(c)(1) provides in pertinent part that asbestos shall be mixed, handled or otherwise worked wet insofar as practicable. The evidence presented established that the Employer's employees were handling the asbestos in dry form which could have been handled in
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