Summary of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated May 6, 1998, Docket No. 97-R3D1-471 (Huntington Beach, CA). Barbara E. Miller, Administrative Law Judge. For Employer: Sai-Hau Chu, Secretary, and Alan Tam, Consultant. For DOSH: James Brown, District Manager.
Employer was a garment manufacturer "making tiny bathing suits" in Orange County. It was inspected by the Division as part of a garment industry TIPP "sweep." The inspection resulted in a citation for a serious guarding violation of 4475(b) with a $375 proposed penalty. Employer appealed the existence of the violation. At the hearing, although it acknowledged that its sewing machines lacked the required guar
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