Riverdale Mills Corp. v. Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission

JOHN R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge.

After a worker at Riverdale Mills caught his hand in a flattening machine, the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission found Riverdale Mills Corporation had committed two serious violations of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, 29 U.S.C. §§ 651-678 (1994 and Supp. IV 1998): failing to install an adequate safety guard on the machine and failing to properly select the appropriate hand protection gear for people operating the machine. Riverdale petitions for review of the Commission’s order. It contends that the accident was not caused…