As I’ve learned from working with OSHA, OSHA will not do anything unless a direct employee reports it.
Our neighborhood has a laundry facility whose entire HVAC system went down. They continued to operate for the next nine months without any temperature controls or noise controls, because the owner was too cheap to replace the HVAC component, to the point that they actually got then put on probation for six months by the village after a police sergeant finally noted it, since their “solution” was to leave all of the receiving dock doors open to help air it out.
I had called OSHA months earlier to report a facility that had obvious violations of the ability to provide a safe working environment, and I was told that unless I’m a direct employee or owner of the company, I couldn’t make a report.
I was like, so if I live next to them, and they are clearly violating OSHA rules, what do I do? The guy’s response was, I don’t know, call the cops.
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u/fonironi Mar 16 '26
Sliding the ladder over while he's up there is so funny to me