Industrial Steel Products Co. v. Occupational Safety & Health Administration

CLARK, Chief Judge:

The district court affirmed a magistrate’s denial of motions to quash two administrative search warrants authorizing programmed safety inspections of steel plants by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Finding that affidavits by local OSHA agents, OSHA programmed inspection instructions and statewide industry ranking reports provided probable cause to issue the warrants, we affirm.

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We are asked to decide whether the magistrates in these consolidated cases had probable cause to issue administrative search warrants under § 8(a) of the Occupational Safety…