Industries Criticize OSHA's 'Virtually Unlimited Authority' In Reporting Rule

A coalition of fuel, manufacturing and other industry sectors is arguing that OSHA is using a worker injury reporting rule to claim “virtually unlimited authority” to craft a new enforceable process for the rule, urging a federal district court to find that the agency failed to justify its assertion of power and seeking to block enforcement of the rule. In a recent filing in their lawsuit challenging OSHA's May 12 final rule revising its electronic reporting and record-keeping regulation, the...