Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated March 29, 1990, Docket No. 89-R4D5-165 (Oxnard, CA). Ronald F. Peters, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Shawn Campbell, Vice President. For DOSH: George MacDonald, CSE.
An alleged serious violation of 3314(a) (cleaning, repairing and adjusting prime movers, machinery and equipment) was reduced to general.
Employer manufactures concrete blocks. It was charged with exposure of employees to machinery capable of movement, which was not de-energized at its power source and did not have its movable parts mechanically blocked. This is required by the safety order to prevent inadvertent movement during servicin
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