Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated May 7, 1991, Docket Nos. 91-R4D2-042 and 043 (Los Angeles, CA). Manuel M. Melgoza, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: J. Andrew Coombs, Attorney. For DOSH: Phil F. Valenti Jr., District Manager.
Two serious violations were affirmed. Total proposed penalties of $4,500 were reduced to $4,000. The citations followed investigation of a chemistry laboratory explosion in which two employees were seriously burned.
Hazardous Substances, Equipment and Processes Involving (5167(a)). $2,000 penalty affirmed. The employees--a chemist and a technician--were running a process in which three flammable and explosive subs
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