Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's Decision dated April 27, 1983, Docket No. 83-R2D3-0068 (Pleasant Grove, CA). August F. Cetti, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Edwin A. Willey, President. For DOSH: Ralph W. Carr, Associate CSE.
This appeal was denied. The alleged serious violation of 3314(a) (de-energizing equipment for cleaning operations) and the $175 penalty were affirmed.
Machinery and Equipment, De-energized and Locked Out, Prior to Cleaning. A farm laborer employed by the Employer sustained severe injury to his foot when it became caught in a screw auger at the bottom of a bin of a rice harvester. The employee was inside the grain bin attemptin
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