Aerojet Solid Propulsion Division
Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated August 2, 1990, Docket No. 90-R2D1-092 (Sacramento, CA). Adolf Loeb, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Jeffrey M. Tanenbaum, Attorney. For DOSH: Nicholas Champlin, Attorney.
An alleged general violation of 3384(a) (hand protection) was vacated.
An employee cut his hand with an open-blade X-Acto knife while trimming overflowed solidified propellant from a Polaris missile housing. He was assigned to trim propellant from three or four such motors a year, spending at least two days on each.
Employer had an instruction manual for rocket motor refueling. It called for weari
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