Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated January 9, 1990, Docket No. 89-R2D6-151 (Brea, CA). Amos P. Freeman, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Tom W. Jones, Manager. For DOSH: Lyle A. Garratt, District Manager.
A serious violation of 3328(f) (machinery and equipment, modification) was affirmed, with $350 penalty.
Employees disabled the anti-reversing mechanism of Employer's water well pump machinery in an attempt to free up the machinery, which was stuck. In using a 48-inch pipe wrench to rotate the machinery in a reverse (clockwise) direction, they built up a greater counter-reversing force than they could control manually. The machinery snap
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