Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated May 15, 1981, Docket No. 81-R1D3-0198 (Chico, CA). August F. Cetti, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: John A. Godsey, Jr., Personnel Director. For DOSH: Ralph W. Carr, Associate CSE.
This appeal was granted. An alleged serious violation of 4318(c) and the proposed penalty of $175 were set aside.
Guarding, Machinery and Equipment, Woodworking Machines, Knife Heads, Exposed.
The inspection was occasioned by an injury to a mill worker who had tried to remove a piece of wood from an automatically-fed finger joint machine without first turning off the power to the knife heads. The inspecting safety engineer
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