OSHA Puts Shale Industry Under the Compliance Microscope

Listen up Marcellus and Utica Shale industry and beyond--anyone whose company has a NAICS classification code of 211111, 213111 and 213112 (Crude petroleum and natural gas extraction; Drilling oil and gas wells; Support activities for oil and gas operations). The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has its eye on you. The legal beagles at the Vorys law firm--with offices in Ohio, Pennsylvania, DC and Texas--have issued a "client alert" to let shale industry companies know that OSHA is about to put you under a microscope. If you get tagged as a "severe violator," which only takes "two or more willful or repeated violations or failure-to-abate notices," you can expect all of your operations to undergo an OSHA anal exam...

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