United States Third Circuit

In a challenge to a standard promulgated by OSHA to regulate the occupational exposure of workers to the toxic substance hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)), plaintiff's petition for review with regard to the employee exposure notification requirements of the standard is granted and the matter remanded to OSHA for further consideration and explanation, where OSHA failed to provide an adequate statement of its reasons for setting the employee exposure notification level at the permissible exposure level. Plaintiff and co-plaintiff Edison Electrical Institute's petitions for review are denied on all other grounds.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/21/2008
• Decided 02/23/2009
• Published 02/23/2009

Judges

• Before SCIRICA, Chief Judge, RENDELL, Circuit Judge, and O'CONNOR, Retired Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Scott L. Nelson, Esq. [Argued], Public Citizen Litigation Group, Washington, DC, for Non Party-Petitioners Public Citizen's Health Research Group and United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union., Stephen C. Yohay [Argued], Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, Washington, DC, for Non Party Petitioner Edison Electric Institute.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles F. James, Esq., Gary K. Stearman, Esq. [Argued], Lauren S. Goodman, Esq., U.S. Department of Labor, Office of the Solicitor, Washington, DC, for Non Party-Respondent Occupational Safety and Health Administration United States Department of Labor., Douglas J. Behr, Esq., Lawrence P. Halprin, Esq., Keller & Heckman, Washington, DC, for Non Party-Intervenor Respondent Aerospace Industries Association of America, Inc., Glenn C. Merritt, Esq., Fitzpatrick & Merritt, Bayonne, NJ, for Non Party-Intervenor Respondent Color Pigments Mfg., Wayne J. D'Angelo, Esq., Kathryn M.T. McMahon-Lohrer, Esq., John L. Wittenborn, Esq., Kelley, Drye & Warren, Washington, D.C., for Non Party-Intervenor Respondent Specialty Steel Industry of North America.