Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated May 20, 1980, Docket Nos. 79-R3D5-1281 and 1282 (Bakersfield, CA). Douglas M. Phillips, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Kenneth L. Brookshire, Owner. For DOSH: Wade E. DeVries, Jr., Associate CSE.
A serious violation of 4237(b) (failure to guard exposed arbor ends on buffing and polishing machines) was reduced to a general violation and the civil penalty was reduced from $175 to $50. Also affirmed, along with penalties totaling $130, were: general violations of 4237(a) (failure to guard exposed arbors on buffing and polishing machines); 4052(a) (unguarded coupling less than seven feet above the floor); 5
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