Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated December 31, 1986, Docket No. 85-R1D2-965 (Watsonville, CA). Amos P. Freeman, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Harry C. Coolidge, Attorney. For DOSH: Frank Morse, Associate CSE.
A serious violation of 3942(a) (guarding) was affirmed with $350 penalty.
The safety order, "in reference to the guarding of machine parts, requires in pertinent part for all guards to be appropriate for the hazard involved and secured in place.
"...(T)he single nut and flat washer at the top of the guard on Employer's box closure machine failed to secure the guard adequately in place over the chain and sprocket drives... (V)i
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