Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated December 9, 1980, Docket No. 80-R3D3-1173 (Redlands, CA). Jonah Lebell, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Peggy Wirz, Employee Relations Administrator. For DOSH: Charles I. Ehrlich, CSE.
A $280 penalty was affirmed for an uncontested serious violation where the Employer had allowed fiberglass lay-up work to proceed, with attendant explosive vapors, within 20 feet horizontally and 10 feet vertically of spark-producing electrical machinery and switches which were not in sealed vapor-proof enclosures.
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