Attorneys See ALJ Decision Underscoring ‘Danger Zone’ Enforcement Test

Two employer attorneys say an administrative law judge’s (ALJ) recent decision partly scrapping an OSHA citation based on whether a worker killed in a 2020 accident had been standing in a recognized “danger zone” underlines the burden the agency faces to show specific evidence of industry practice to support such claims. During an Aug. 21 webinar hosted in the law firm Keller & Heckman’s “OSHA 30/30” series, attorneys for the firm highlighted the enforcement case Secretary of Labor v. C&S...