19,622R Big Valley Dental Center

By: Cal-OSHA Decisions

Digest of COSHAB Decision After Reconsideration dated July 14, 1999, Docket Nos. 94-R2D4-288 and 289. James P. Gazdecki, Chairman; Bill Duplissea, Member.

The Appeals Board affirmed the ALJ decision of February 27, 1995 [Digest 18,704], with respect to a serious violation with proposed penalty of $100 that was reduced to general and $30. The petition was filed by Employer.

Bloodborne Pathogens, Regulated Waste (formerly 5193(d)(4)(C)2.a., now 5193(d)(3)(E)3.).

During a complaint-based inspection, the Division's compliance officer saw Employer's dental hygienists "discard gauze taken from patients' mouths into containers that did not have closable to

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