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Pennsylvania workers sue OSHA, say agency neglected COVID dangers

Posted 7/27/20

Three workers at a meatpacking plant outside of Scranton, Penn., are suing the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia after they received no response to their complaints of an “imminent danger” of contracting the coronavirus at their workplace, ProPublica reports.  

The Maid-Rite Specialty Foods workers filed their action in a Pennsylvania federal court using an obscure OSHA provision that gives them the right to sue the Secretary of Labor for “arbitrarily or capriciously” neglecting to act against those hazards, according to the publication. 

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