OSHA’s Dropped UPS Safety Warrants Point to Long-Game Strategy

OSHA’s choice to allow inspection search warrants against United Parcel Service Inc. over heat-related safety concerns to expire is a legal strategy meant to preserve the agency’s inspection powers, legal watchers say.

The move is the latest in an ongoing lawsuit at the US District Court for the District of Delaware. The court approved two warrants for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to inspect UPS facilities in Delaware that would also include the agency installing heat-stress monitoring in company trucks.

UPS refused to permit OSHA to conduct the inspections, as well as another unrelated agency inspection in Texas a ...