Worker Deaths, Illnesses Drive Health-Care Virus Inspections

Inspections of health-care facilities by federal and state workplace safety officials are mounting and most have been prompted by Covid-19 issues.

Federal OSHA and its 28 state and territory counterparts opened 880 health-care inspections since March 15 when coronavirus stay-at-home orders became common, through July 9.

Despite the high inspection numbers, federal OSHA as of Friday had cited only one employer—a Georgia nursing home fined for allegedly not reporting to OSHA within one day the hospitalization of six employees.

The number of citations should start increasing in September and October when the six-month window to issue those citations arrives from ...