Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated July 24, 1986, Docket Nos. 85-R2D1-1919 and 1920 (Sacramento, CA). Robert W. Farnsworth, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Kenneth E. Hammill Jr., Interim President. For DOSH: Robert W. Hackbart, Associate CSE.
Two general violations were affirmed and an alleged serious one was vacated. Charges and dispositions were:
3203(a)(1) (accident prevention plan, training). A general violation was affirmed. A recently-hired employee had a finger smashed in a hydraulic press brake. He had taken four years of high school metal shop but had never used a hydraulic press brake until starting work for Employer. He testi
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