OWENS-CORNING FIBERGLAS

OSHRC Docket No. 78-225

Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission

August 14, 1979

COUNSEL:

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Baruch A. Fellner, Office of the Solicitor, USDOL

James E. White, Reg. Sol., USDOL

Thomas R. Merliano, Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., for the employer

OPINION:

ORDER

The Parties' stipulation and settlement agreement dated July 27, 1979, is Granted.  

DISSENTBY: COTTINE

DISSENT:

COTTINE, Commissioner, dissenting:

For the reasons set forth in my separate opinions in Boston Gear, A Div. of Murray Co. of Texas, Inc.,    OSAHRC   , 7 BNA OSHC 1414, 1979 CCH OSHD P23,595 (No. 76-967, 1979) and Western Electric Co., Inc., 78 OSAHRC 98/A2, 7 BNA OSHC 1020, 1978 CCH OSHD P23,158 (No. 1536, 1978), I would remand this case to the judge for findings of fact and conclusions of law with respect to whether the settlement agreement is consistent with the provisions and objectives of the Act.