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Custom Woodworker Fought OSHA Penalty and Won

Another great blog post by Rich Christianson at the Woodworking Network. Why Custom Woodworker Fought OSHA Penalty Victory Woodworks' recent successful appeal of a serious table saw violation issued by an overzealous Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) enforcement agent, was the subject of my blog last week: Custom Woodworker Takes on OSHA and Wins . The saga began last year when Victory Woodworks, a full-service architectural woodwork shop based in Sparks, NV, was working as a subcontractor on a building project in Las Vegas. The OSHA inspector visiting the site on a day when Victory Woodworks' employees were not present (a technicality that I failed to point out in my previous blog) was curious to learn about the contents of the company's  locked job box. Cutting to the chase, at a meeting arranged a couple of days later with Victory Woodworks' foreman in which the job box was opened, the OSHA agent took the greatest interest in a 1...