Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated October 8, 1987, Docket No. 87-R4D1-166 (Culver City, CA). Adolf Loeb, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Allen Quignon, Safety Engineer. For DOSH: Norbert Cazenave, CSE.
A serious violation of 4187(a) (rolls) was affirmed, with $375 penalty.
Employer used a "Timesaver" bath machine to clean metal plates (cauls) used in its printed circuit manufacturing process. An employee was injured at an unguarded point of operation--in-running rollers that picked up rollers and ran them through a bath. The employee's work station was at another machine (a "Mobat") that transferred cauls from one conveyor to another,
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