17,144 Watters Personnel Services

By: Cal-OSHA Decisions

WATTERS ASSOCIATES, INC.

Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated June 15, 1987, Docket No. 86-R1D4-1298 (San Leandro, CA). Robert W. Farnsworth, Administrative Law Judge.

For Employer: Robert M. Stone, Attorney. For DOSH: Michael D. Mason, Chief Counsel.

An alleged general violation of 3203(a) (accident prevention program) was vacated. Employer was an employment agency. It furnished 23 workers to Gardco, a manufacturer of light fixtures. One of these workers (trained as a computer operator and totally without experience operating press brakes or similar machines) amputated both thumbs with a 40-ton press brake during his first few minutes on the job

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