5th Circuit enforces six-month time limit on OSHA violations
1/4/2017 11:12:07 AM
(Reuters) -- A federal appeals court overturned workplace safety sanctions against a Texas oil refinery, ruling that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration cannot penalize employers for violations of a chemical safety rule that happened more than six months earlier.
A unanimous three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that OSHA could not cite Delek Refining, a subsidiary of Tennessee-based Delek US Holdings Inc, for violations of its process safety management (PSM) regulations outside of a statutory six-month statute of limitations.
Reporting by Robert Iafolla
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