Digest of COSHAB's Decision After Reconsideration dated August 31, 1987, Docket No. 85-R1D5-1904. Elaine W. Donaldson, Chairman; L. A. Harrington and Michael R. Monagan, Members.
The Appeals Board affirmed the ALJ decision of September 8, 1986 (Digest 16,795). The Board denied an appeal from a serious violation of 4000(d) (process machine power control).
The citation followed an accident in which an employee was injured at a banding station in a lumber mill. Although the ALJ decision and the petition for reconsideration "dwell on" the accident itself, the "issue to be determined...was whether the machine power controls were maintained in a safe opera
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