Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated January 16, 1991, Docket No. 90-R2D3-1023 (Cottonwood, CA). Dennis M. Sullivan, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Robert Mather, Director of Loss Prevention. For DOSH: Nancy Fagan, Associate Safety Engineer.
A violation of 3314(a) (cleaning, repairing, servicing and adjusting prime movers, machinery and equipment) was reduced from serious to general, eliminating a proposed $2,000 penalty. The violation was affirmed as to only one of two charged instances.
A market employee cleaned a meat slicer without disengaging it from its power source--i.e., she did not pull the plug from the wall socket. She injured
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