Summary of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated March 10, 1993, Docket Nos. 92-R1D5-654 and 655 (Cloverdale, CA). Dennis M. Sullivan, Administrative Law Judge. For Employer: Henry Kim, Owner. For DOSH: Jeanne Wolfe, Staff Counsel.
Henry Kim owned acreage he planned to devote to the growing of ornamental plants. Underground sprinkler lines were necessary; so he entered into an oral agreement to have Lawrence Carr, Jr., dig trenches for the piping along pre-planned routes. While performing the work with a trencher he owned, Carr was severely injured when his hand was caught in an unguarded V-belt nip-point. After the Division inspected in response to a complaint
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