28 COR 40-4455 [20,109]
PENALTIES - FINANCIAL HARDSHIP
Employer provided substantial and credible evidence and testimony that paying the proposed penalties would certainly drive it out of business. Since all cited violations had been abated, and Employer showed exemplary safety commitment, the penalties were reduced to $1 for each of 10 violations.
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Summary of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated August 30, 2001, Docket Nos. 00-R1D1-3492 to 3497 (San Francisco, CA).
Manuel M. Melgoza, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Miyoko Schinner, President.
For DOSH: Armstrong Lum, Associate Safety Engineer.
Employer was a natural foods producer, special
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