CO-PARTNERS, dba DUNLAP'S WELL DRILLING
Summary of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated February 1, 1994, Docket No. 93-R2D3-1144 (Chico, CA). Adolf Loeb, Administrative Law Judge. For Employer: Donald Dunlap, Partner. For DOSH: John Macfarlane, Safety Engineer.
An amputation accident occurred at one of Employer's well-drilling rigs; after the Division investigated it cited for a serious violation and proposed a $3,000 penalty. Employer appealed only the classification of the violation.
"An employee had lost a little finger and part of his hand when a scowl, a kind of hammer weighing 1,500 pounds, and which is used to drive a casing into the well, dropped 1
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