Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated September 26, 1990, Docket No. 90-R4D4-318 (Covina, CA). Ashaki A. Kone', Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: John P. Corrington, Owner. For DOSH: Isaac Chae, District Manager.
An alleged serious violation of 5432(a) (electrical and other sources of ignition) was reduced to general, eliminating a proposed $175 penalty.
An employee received third-degree burns on his hands and arms when gasoline spilled on the hand-held drop light he was using while he tried to replace the sending unit in a fuel tank. The drop light contained an ordinary, "unapproved" 60-watt incandescent bulb, hot enough to ignite gasoline.
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