Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's Decision dated September 28, 1984, Docket No. 84-R1D2-409 (Milpitas, CA). August F. Cetti, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: David S. Hahn, Owner. For DOSH: C. S. Van Blommestein, Associate CSE.
The only issue on appeal was the amount of the $75 penalty for a serious violation of 4542(a), providing: "Horizontal nontilting-type hood mixers shall have a cover with an interlocking device so arranged that power cannot be applied to the agitators unless the cover is in place on the mixer."
Penalty, Serious Violation, First Instance Sanction Appropriate. The violative equipment was a mixer for ground meat in Employer's groce
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