Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated January 10, 1990, Docket No. 89-R2D4-173 (Modesto, CA). Dennis M. Sullivan, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Robert D. Peterson, Attorney. For DOSH: A. Margaret Cloudt, Staff Counsel.
A serious violation of 3314(a) (cleaning, repairing and adjusting prime movers, machinery and equipment) was affirmed, with $300 penalty. (The ALJ amended the citation from one charging violation of 3999(b), Conveyors, holding that the amendment described the violation more particularly and did not prejudice Employer.)
An employee was seriously injured when he placed his hand in the nip point of a fruit conveyor in Employer
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