CARIBTOW CORP. v. OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY & HEALTH R. COM'N

No. 73-1285.

493 F.2d 1064 (1974)

CARIBTOW CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH REVIEW COMMISSION, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 18, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edelmiro Salas Garcia, Guaynabo, P. R., for petitioner.

Morton Hollander, Atty., Dept. of Justice, with whom Irving Jaffe, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Stephen F. Eilperin, and Jean A. Staudt, Attys., Dept. of Justice, were on brief, for respondents.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, McENTEE and CAMPBELL, Circuit Judges.


COFFIN, Chief Judge.

An employee of Caribtow, a Puerto Rican corporation, was killed while engaged in trying to move a crawler crane from a barge to a dock in Santurce, Puerto Rico. After investigation, the Secretary of Labor, acting pursuant to the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, 29 U.S.C. §§ 651-678 (the Act), issued a citation and notice of a proposed fine of $700 to the corporation for a serious violation of its duty to furnish its employees...

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