And all it took was for a man to die.
Really quite unreal and sad set of circumstances led to The Buffalo News being fined $31,500 in connection with a fatal fall suffered by a News reporter out covering a story.
Of course OSHA is wrong to find fault with the paper, but the feds were merely applying the logic that had been steadily working its way through legislation and the courts lo these many years. That thinking holds that an employer always and forever should foresee and mitigate all possible risks an employee might encounter during the course of performing their job.
Far from illogical, even if crazed.
