Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated August 18, 1980, Docket No. 80-R1D3-262 (Martinez, CA). August F. Cetti, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Donald E. Schlotz, Attorney at Law. For DOSH: John W. Hawkes, Chief Counsel.
Guarding, Machinery and Equipment, by Location. A serious violation of 4002(a) (guarding revolving and reciprocating parts) and its $160 civil penalty were affirmed. The Division moved at the hearing to amend the citation from a violation of 4184(b) to a violation of 4002(a).
An employee's forearm was crushed when it got caught between a fixed chute and a three feet diameter revolving drum on a roofing paper manufacturing m
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