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Adelson, Testan, Brundo & Jimenez • Arnall Golden Gregory • Arnstein & Lehr
• Becker & Poliakoff • Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan&Aronoff • Bodman • Bricker
& Eckler • Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione • Broad and Cassel • Buchalter Nemer
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& Finger • Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti • Rivkin Radler • Robbins Geller
Rudman & Dowd • Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson • Rutan & Tucker • Ryley Carlock &
OSHA takes
aggressive
new stance
Agency’s fines are minor, so it
turns to ‘regulation by shaming.’
BY JENNA GREENE
100 new players join the list of America’s largest firms.
This week marks the debut of our expanded NLJ law firm survey:
The new NLJ 350 ranks 100 national and regional law firms that
have been added to our annual list of the nation’s largest firms
by headcount. Meet the new crop of big firm players inside in a
SPECIAL PULLOUT SECTION.
Applewhite • Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt • Segal McCambridge Singer &
Mahoney • Selman Breitman • Seward& Kissel • Shipman& Goodwin • Sills
Cummis & Gross • Smith Moore Leatherwood • SmithAmundsen • Spilman
Thomas & Battle • Stoll Keenon Ogden • Sullivan & Worcester • Thompson, Coe,
Cousins & Irons • Tressler • Varnum • Whiteford, Taylor & Preston • Wicker Smith
O'Hara McCoy & Ford • Wiggin and Dana • Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer • Windels
Marx Lane & Mittendorf • Wolff & Samson • Wood Smith Henning & Berman
When a massive tank of sulfuric acid
exploded at a Delaware refinery, boilermaker
Jeff Davis’ entire body was literally dissolved,
leaving no remains. The penalty assessed
against the refinery by the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration for an
unsafe workplace: $175,000.
About a million gallons of the acid also
spilled into the
Delaware River, killing 2,400 fish and
240 crabs. The penalty for violating the
Clean Water Act:
$10 million.
The story of
the 2001 accident
was recounted by
OSHA head David
DAVID MICHAELS
Michaels to an audience of steelworkers last
month. “How do we explain to Jeff Davis’
wife Mary and their five children that the
penalty for killing fish and crabs is so much
higher than the penalty for killing her husband and their father?” he said.
OSHA’s hands are tied by statute when it
comes to assessing fines, making the agency
in some ways a toothless watchdog. The
maximum penalty per serious workplace
violation—one where “a substantial probability of death or serious physical harm
could result”—is $7,000, and Congress
seems unlikely to raise it anytime soon.
For what it lacks in bite, OSHA under the
Obama administration has tried to make up
for in bark. “OSHA is doing things differently,” Michaels said in an interview, citing
SEE OSHA, PAGE 4
DIEGO M. RADZINSCHI
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