OSHRC Adopts Narrow View Of Maintenance’ In Construction Standard

The Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC) has struck down OSHA’s citation against a New Jersey construction company for a 2017 accident that the agency claimed violated lockout/tagout requirements in its construction safety standard, taking a narrow view of the “maintenance” work that triggers those provisions. In its newly posted decision , the two-member OSHRC finds for the employer in Secretary of Labor v. Roy Rock, LLC , in holding that OSHA was wrong to treat an incident where...