U.S. Computer Services
Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated October 25, 1990, Docket Nos. 90-R2D1-584 and 585 (El Dorado Hills, CA). Adolf Loeb, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Mary G. Jordan, General Counsel. For DOSH: Nicholas Champlin, Attorney.
On a penalty-only appeal, a violation of 4002(a) (moving parts of machinery and equipment) was reduced from serious to general, eliminating the proposed $600 penalty. (Appeal from a penalty puts the classification of a violation in issue.)
Employer used a folding machine for cable television bills. A rapidly-rotating shaft protruded from the machine; it had a sleeve guard, but a .015-inch gap
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