Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's Decision dated September 1, 1983, Docket Nos. 83-R4D3-163 and 164 (Long Beach, CA). Ronald F. Peters, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Harold Cook, Senior Safety Engineer. For DOSH: Stephen S. Handin, Staff Counsel.
The appeal was denied. An alleged regulatory violation of 14301(a)(2) was affirmed. The safety order requires recording of a recordable illness or injury within six working days after Employer receives information that it has occurred.
Illness, Recordability, Methylene Chloride Exposure. A painter, assigned to clean the interior of an airplane wing fuel tank, became ill. She was using a "safety solvent" kno
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