Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated December 5, 1990, Docket No. 90-R2D2-887 (Vallejo, CA). Dennis M. Sullivan, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Mike Edwards, General Manager. For DOSH: Don Woosley, Associate Safety Engineer.
A violation of 3314(a) (cleaning, repairing, servicing and adjusting prime movers, machinery and equipment) was reduced from serious to general. The proposed $1,600 penalty was vacated.
Employer manufactured large household mirrors. It was cited for not de-energizing electric rolls, used to convey mirrors from a drying oven, before an employee tried to sweep water from under the rolls. The employee's arm was caught in
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