Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated October 5, 1990, Docket No. 90-R2D5-284 (Corcoran, CA). Ashaki A. Kone', Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: John Sterling, Attorney. For DOSH: Ron E. Medeiros, Staff Attorney.
A serious violation of 4640(b) (cotton gins and seed cotton processing machines, saws) was affirmed, with $300 penalty.
An employee was injured by the rotating saw blades of a lint cleaner when he reached through the rear access door to clear the machine of a wad of cotton. The safety order requires guarding of such doors with "interlocked barriers, bolts, padlocks or equivalent." The machine was turned off, but the blades continued
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