16,195 West American Rubber Company

By: Cal-OSHA Decisions

Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated June 3, 1985, Docket Nos. 84-R3D1-728 and 729 (Orange, CA). Ronald F. Peters, Administrative Law Judge.

For Employer: Susan J. Mahl, Attorney. For DOSH: Joan Lee, CSE.

Alleged serious violations of 4075(a) (gears and sprockets) and 4215(f)(4) (hydraulic power presses), with proposed penalties of $150 each, were vacated.

Press Control Systems, Failure to Establish Press as Hydraulic or Equipped with Part Revolution Clutch. An employee's fingertip was amputated when he reached into a rubber molding press and the machine cycled.

Employer was charged with a serious violation of 4215 (f)(4), providing: "When req

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