We did not see it coming. With 30 years of safe practice, minimum fines and open cooperation with OSHA, we thought that we had nothing to fear. Little did we know that OSHA had placed us on their hit list of targeted employers and intended to penalize us until we gave in to their every demand. Eighteen “Serious” citations and $22,400 in penalties later, with our heads still swimming, we thought it our good fortune when an independent OSHA safety consultant called the next day promising to work with us and reduce our fines to $5,000. We almost fell for it. We now know that it was a set-up.

The best thing we ever did was to engage your firm. When you showed us OSHA’s inside reports to the feds and the games they were playing on us to beat us down, we got mad. Using OSHA’s own internal documents you showed us how to get out of OSHA’s spotlight, avoid their hassle and continue our business without OSHA’s interference and inefficiency to our operations. You contested the 18 citations with winning arguments that OSHA was outside their legal authority, trying to enforce standards not adopted by OSHA and attempting to repeal operations processes approved by prior OSHA officers.

I have seen the OSHA inside documents. I strongly encourage everyone in our industry to contact you as soon as possible. If OSHA has already hit them; they need you immediately. If OSHA hasn’t yet hit them, we know from their internal documents that they will soon. These employers need your help so they do not suffer what OSHA put us through. OSHA wasted so much of our management’s time, money and energy, all for nothing, resisting what they had no basis to ever cite us.

Again, we cannot thank you enough. Tell your clients to call me. It is in my interest to protect them so our whole industry gets out of the OSHA spotlight and we all can go back to work.