Two Southern California garment businesses have been ordered to stop any work with dangerous equipment

Two Southern California garment businesses have been ordered to stop any work with dangerous equipment until the employers can ensure the equipment has the appropriate safeguards, the state Labor Enforcement Task Force says.

The task force is a multi-agency group formed to combat the underground economy.

Vinh Loi Inc., a garment contractor with 26 workers employed at two locations in El Monte, had an industrial fabric cutter with improper safeguards to the cutting blade as well as the belt and pulley, the state says.

Kinary Inc., an El Monte denim washing business that employs 22 workers to dye and stone-wash jeans and other garments, had nine of its eleven industrial washers removed from service by Cal/OSHA until the proper safeguards in the belt and pulley workings on the washers are reinstalled, says the task force. Two of the same washers were not equipped with interlocks to prevent movement of the washer drums while the door is open, it says.


 Central Valley Business Times 

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