Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated November 7, 1985, Docket No. 85-R2D3-309 (Red Bluff, CA). Adolf Loeb, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Gregory B. Ryan, President. For DOSH: John A. MacFarlane, CSE.
A repeat/serious violation of 3999(b) (conveyors) was affirmed, but the proposed penalty of $975 was reduced to $750.
Conveyors, Inadequate Guarding---Penalty, Reduction Based on Insufficient Credit for Good Faith. Employer, a walnut processor, was cited for "having belt conveyors in use which were not so guarded that the entire sides of the pulleys are covered, with the guard extending in the direction of the run of the belt such a distanc
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