Our Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) & Mine Safety and Health (MSHA) Practice Group is generally recognized as one of the leading occupational safety and health practices in the United States. The OSHA/MSHA Group includes former top officials from the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission and Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission.
Over the last 18 years, the Group’s attorneys have handled dozens of explosion/catastrophe cases as well as multi-agency investigations. They pioneered petrochemical process safety cases, from the very first large-scale chemical plant inspection by OSHA in 1985 to the most significant chemical and petrochemical cases of today. Group attorneys handled the early ergonomic cases in the meatpacking industry that are the basis for OSHA's ergonomic guidelines. They also handled the major OSHA recordkeeping cases in the 1980's that led to the regulation changes of today. Group attorneys were also heavily involved in the construction cases that established the multi-employer liability rules as well as the liability rules for engineers and architects. And our Group's work in the automotive industry set today's interpretation of OSHA's lockout/tagout standard as it is applied to assembly lines.
The OSHA/MSHA Group regularly represents clients before the OSHA Review Commission, the Federal MSHA Commission, federal appellate courts, Labor Department panels and officials, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), the U.S. Chemical Safety Board and Hazard Investigation, as well as state agencies and courts.
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