A Texas owner planned to develop the site of a defunct hospital into residential housing. He knew the buildings contained asbestos. But rather than trained licensed personnel, he used 11 illegal immigrants from Mexico to do the work. He also kept up the work in secret after the city ordered him to stop. When OSHA discovered what was happening, it cited the owner for 29 willful violations, including 11 separate citations for not training the workers and 11 more for not supplying them respirators. The owner said that he should have been cited for two willful violations, at most. Applying […]