17,328 Western Lift Incorporated

Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated December 18, 1989, Docket Nos. 89-R3D2-247 and 248 (National City, CA). Jonah Lebell, Administrative Law Judge.

For Employer: Jon S. Halstead, President. For DOSH: Allan Coie, Staff Counsel.

Of two alleged serious violations, one was affirmed with $250 penalty and one was vacated.

Point of Operation Tools and Guards (4186(b)). Affirmed with $250 penalty. Employer, a truck lift manufacturer, permitted use of a shear machine with a guard that was one inch from the feeding table and one inch from the cutting blade. The machine was foot-actuated; the operator fed sheet metal stock through the guard opening by hand