Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated March 4, 1991, Docket Nos. 90-R4D1-677 and 678 (Hawthorne, CA). Ronald F. Peters, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Robert D. Peterson, Attorney. For DOSH: Nicholas A. Champlin, Staff Counsel.
An alleged serious violation of 4231(a) (saws, metal-cutting), with proposed $750 penalty, was vacated.
Employer, an aircraft manufacturer, had a 10-inch table saw for use in trimming and shaping aluminum. As stated in the citation, the hood (or blade guard) "failed to automatically adjust itself to the thickness of, and remain in contact with, material being cut at the point where stock encounters the saw."
This,
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