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Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated October 3, 1986, Docket No. 86-R1D2-262 (Los Gatos, CA). Robert W. Farnsworth, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: John Modiri, General Manager. For DOSH: C. S. Van Blommestein, Associate CSE.
An alleged serious violation of 5416(b) (flammable vapors) was vacated.
Flammable Liquids, No Violation Established Where Bus Boy "Torched" Alcohol With Lighter, Without Proof of Flammability.
A waiter and a bus boy were seriously burned when the bus boy, apparently as a practical joke, shot a torch-like lighter flame into alcohol with which the waiter was filling a warming stove.
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