Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated May 11, 1990, Docket No. 89-R3D2-494 (Encinitas, CA). Jonah Lebell, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Nelson A. Coash, Production Manager. For DOSH: Ronald S. Martin, Associate CSE.
An alleged serious violation of 4440 (guarding cylinder and rotary presses, class B) was vacated, with proposed $375 penalty.
"The Division alleged that two printing presses were not guarded on the in-running side of power rollers."
The unguarded rollers in question were not power-operated, nor was paper or other material fed into them by hand. The rollers were part of the inking process, which the operator did not perform wh
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