September 16, 2026

Argument Nears In Appeal Testing Workers’ Ability To Sue Over ‘Imminent Danger’


August 31, 2022 at 05:20 PM
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit is set to hear oral argument next week in a suit brought by workers at a Pennsylvania meat plant challenging the Trump OSHA’s refusal to take enforcement action over what they say was an “imminent danger” of COVID-19 infection at their workplace, in a test of one of the OSH Act’s few private rights of action.

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