Safety Agency Puts Punishing U.S. Employers First, Lawmaker Says

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is punishing employers at the expense of reducing workplace injuries, Representative Tim Walberg, a Michigan Republican, said today at a congressional hearing.

“It has become an administration more focused on punishment than prevention,” said Walberg, chairman of the a member of the committee who was elected last year. “I am concerned with recent actions that suggest the administration has shifted the balance toward punishment and taken its sights off commonsense rules that promote prevention.”