In article _jypc.28996$5a.9520@okepread03, SteveB says...

Usually, OSHA does not just "show up". There has to be a complaint filed by
a current employee, and that means not from one that was just fired, but one
that still works there. OR, there has to have been an accident with injury,
or an "imminent threat to safety or health".

The rules are actually very specific.

There must have been a personal injury that caused more than
a two-day stay in the hospital, or a death on site, that
triggers an OSHA inspection on site. Under those conditions
I think the inspection cannot be refused, or the worker's
comp insurance gets yanked.

At one job we had plenty of ER vistits for folks who
tried to trim their nails with an end mill, and got it
a bit too close, etc. But none of these resulted in an osha
visit.

Another thing that most folks don't realize is that the
*size* of the shop matters a great deal. Shops with fewer
than eleven employees are exempt from most of the OSHA
reporting rules.

Jim

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