Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated May 11, 1987, Docket No. 86-R4D2-1664 (Montebello, CA). Adolf Loeb, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Craig Taslitt, Vice President, For DOSH: Miguel A. Ortiz, CSE.
A serious violation of 4206(a) (guarding the point of operation) was affirmed, with $625 penalty. Of nine mechanical power presses, none had point-of-operation guarding and eight had no other approved point-of-operation protection. (The ninth had two-hand controls.)
Employer contended the "irregular" nature of its work, requiring much twisting and turning, made compliance with the safety order impossible. "The safety order is not rendered ina
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