Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated October 18, 1990, Docket No. 90-R4D5-503 (Oxnard, CA). Jacqueline S. Drucker, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Jose A. Molina Sr., President. For DOSH: David R. Sullivan, Associate Safety Engineer.
A willful/serious violation of 3456(b) (agricultural operations, hand-held tools) was affirmed, with $7,500 penalty. Employer, a farm labor contractor, had employees weeding a celery field with short-handled knives while working in stooped positions. Employer had been cited for violating the same safety order five months earlier; that citation was not appealed.
Employer's president did not deny the violation i
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