Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated October 30, 1986, Docket Nos. 86-R3D3-559 and 560 (Paramount, CA). Gerald Winerman, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Robert D. Peterson, Attorney. For DOSH: Lonnie D. Kobus, Associate CSE.
General violations of 1596(g)(4) and (a)(1) (ROPS and seat belts) were affirmed, the latter as a repeat with $175 penalty.
Seat Belts, Insufficiency and Non-Use--Employment, Relationship Established. A tractor seat belt was two inches wide, not the required three inches. The operator did not use the seat belt as required for tractors which, like this one, have brake horsepower rating above 20 and were manufactured afte
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