“It is that sort of new-sheriff-in-town mentality where enforcement is king, and they are using all the tools in their toolbox to ratchet up enforcement,” said Eric Conn, Washington-based founding partner of Conn Maciel Carey LLP, noting the fines could add up.
“Imagine that you operate a metal-fabricating facility, and you’ve got 100 presses and OSHA determines that they’re all inadequately guarded,” he said. “(OSHA) could come in and instead of citing one violation, with a $15,000 penalty for not guarding your machines, they could issue a separate machine guarding violation for each machine at a facility. That’s 100 machines, so instead of a $15,000 penalty, it’s $1.5 million. That’s a lot.”
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