15,657R Hughes Aircraft Company

By: Cal-OSHA Decisions

Space & Communications Group

Digest of COSHAB's Decision After Reconsideration dated January 26, 1984, Docket No. 78-R4D1-258. Mark K. Bowers, Chairman; Janet M. Eagan, Deputy Member.

This appeal was denied. The Decision of the ALJ dated September 22, 1978 (Digest 12,900) establishing a general violation of 3303 (hazard from flying particles) was affirmed.

Guarding Machinery and Equipment, Flying Particles---Safety Equipment, Providing Is Not Enough.

"The evidence that chips were flying 20 feet in a work area where employees wore goggles with no side shields, and did not have screens between the machines, is sufficient to establish that employees

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