Quick question -
What companies are regulated by OSHA? I'm sitting here watching John's Landscaping Contracting, Inc. do my neighbors yard. Forget for the moment that they are using five people with five leaf blowers to chase a few leaves off a 50' x 100' plot (that's total size, including the house). These people have no ear protection, no eye protection, no dust masks, no gloves. They are using leaf blowers, chain saws, weed whackers, a lawn mower big enough to do Giants Stadium and a chipper, all without the benefit of any of the aforementioned safety equipment.
If it's noisy enough in my office, with the windows and doors closed that I won't be able to have a phone conversation until they're done, it's just common sense that these people's hearing is in danger, not to mention their eyes, lungs and hands.
Now, I know that most of them (though probably not John himself) are probably illegal aliens, and many of you think they should be used up and then thrown away, but in general, are there ANY laws concerning worker safety that apply to such an operation?