OSHA Small Business Abuse by Inspectors Fines Fraud Extortion

8/24/2010 Fox Business News - America's Nightly Scoreboard

OSHA small business abuse. Inspectors coming after businesses that have never had problems just to find things to fine & bring money into the gov. Included is fines for crooked scaffolding that the inspector did not measure and was proven okay by the contractor. "Hazardous materials" such as brick, cement, sand, & water. Discussed are the notions of cash-strapped agencies, fraud, extortion. Also, one imagines that these federal employees need to generate income to keep their jobs.

OSHA is the US government agency for Occupational Health and Safety Administration created in 1970. As any other agency, it has grown beyond it's original purpose, and while it is a necessary agency, many of its rules have grown into abuses. Similar abuses are occurring with restaurant health inspectors, at least in Los Angeles as I've seen -- the inspector will come every month and find more things to fine, often when the owner is not present.

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