16,791 Cimino’s Cabinet Door Co.

Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated September 5, 1986, Docket No. 85-R1D2-1626 (Santa Cruz, CA). Amos P. Freeman, Administrative Law Judge.

For Employer: Tom Cimino, Owner. For DOSH: Thomas Meamber, Associate CSE.

A repeat/serious violation of 4318(a) (guarding planers, moulders, stickers and matchers) was affirmed, with $900 penalty.

Guarding, Moulding Shaper Head. An employee amputated his left index fingertip while using Employer's Ritter R-30 triple-headed wood shaper, used to shape moulding designs for cabinet doors. The unguarded, hand-fed knife head was the only one of three heads that was not automatically fed. Employer's owner testified