Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated July 11, 1985, Docket No. 85-R3D2-0146 (San Diego, CA). Jonah Lebell, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Robert S. Unger, Attorney. For DOSH: Charles A. Fox, Associate CSE.
An alleged general violation of 4559(a) (disposal unit guarding) was vacated. No penalty was proposed.
"Section 4559(a) provides that all free-standing counter or sink mounted disposal units shall have the feed throat guarded so that an employee's hand cannot contact the moving parts. The section thereafter lists a number of alternate methods by which this can be accomplished including the installation of an offset feed throat `which w
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