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
Read More...