Safety Coalition: OSHA silica rule cost estimate off by $4.5 billion

Source: Construction Industry Safety Coalition, Washington, D.C.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s proposed standards covering respirable crystalline silica will cost contractors and their suppliers $5 billion per year—nearly $4.5 billion above estimates agency officials indicated in September 2013, when they outlined a new permissible exposure limit (PEL) for construction and general industry workplaces.

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