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OSHA and its state partners have a total of 2,200 inspectors charged with ensuring the
safety of more than 8 million workplaces employing 130 million
workers. That comes to abut 1 inspector for every 59,000 American workers.
There's no way it can do its job with so few resources, but OSHA has been systematically hollowed out for years under Republican administrations and Congresses that have despised the agency since its inception.