Honestly I would just doubt OSHA's authority and absolutely fight that.
A lot of this discussion is "there should be consequences" and neglecting to consider "who is the authority to bring consequences and what are those consequences". This allows for cognitive neglect that seems to simply be "any consequence from a private person or the government is a good consequence" and that's just categorically false!
so, yeah I'd take the general stance of "fuck that regulator, in particular" and it would look like "apathetic capitalist fighting thing they are responsible for" but that wouldn't be my stance at all, where I would be totally open to a more convincing authority with a more convincing case. state AG or the DOJ coming in guns blazing? Oh shit completely different calculus! Passionate labor regulator with the weakest tangentially related civil lawsuit that also has the off chance of causing more civil liability just because I was too worried about a PR hit? Gtfoh
A lot of this discussion is "there should be consequences" and neglecting to consider "who is the authority to bring consequences and what are those consequences". This allows for cognitive neglect that seems to simply be "any consequence from a private person or the government is a good consequence" and that's just categorically false!
so, yeah I'd take the general stance of "fuck that regulator, in particular" and it would look like "apathetic capitalist fighting thing they are responsible for" but that wouldn't be my stance at all, where I would be totally open to a more convincing authority with a more convincing case. state AG or the DOJ coming in guns blazing? Oh shit completely different calculus! Passionate labor regulator with the weakest tangentially related civil lawsuit that also has the off chance of causing more civil liability just because I was too worried about a PR hit? Gtfoh