20,734 Txi Riverside Cement

By: Cal-OSHA Decisions
32 COR 40-5554 [¶ 20,734]

EQUIPMENT - MAINTAINING IN SAFE OPERATING CONDITION
Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, § 3328(g) (2005) - Employer's welders used a chain with a defective swivel hook, which caused a serious injury accident. But the hook was assembled defectively before the employees found and used it, probably by the manufacturer, and the citation charged a failure to properly maintain equipment, not the use of defective equipment. The citation was dismissed.

Summary of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated September 12, 2005, Docket No. 02-R5D3-4707 (Oro Grande, CA).
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