Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated August 6, 1990, Docket No. 90-R1D1-341 (San Francisco, CA). Amos P. Freeman, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Phil Wood, Director of Operations. For DOSH: Armstrong "Army" Lum, Associate Safety Engineer.
A violation of 2340.17(a) (guarding of energized parts) was affirmed as serious, with $300 penalty. (Existence of the violation was uncontested; classification and penalty were the only issues.)
Employees had complained of electric shocks from exposed, energized parts of one of Employer's pass-through warming ovens. One employee had been injured nearly eight weeks before the inspection. Employer did not
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