Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated June 25, 1980, Docket No. 79-R3D1-233 (Anaheim, CA). Gerald Winerman, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Edgar Vanneman, Jr., General Attorney. For DOSH: James Brown, District Manager.
A serious violation of 3314(a) was established where the injured employee had attempted to hand pick clogged fibers from a large revolving drum used to make carpets.
"8 Cal. Adm. Code 3314(a) requires that machinery or equipment capable of movement shall be stopped and if necessary the movable parts shall be mechanically blocked to prevent inadvertent movement during cleaning. The evidence, when viewed as a whole, indicated
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