Safety violations found in 9 out of 10 visits at U.S. Forest Service
After spending days fighting fires, clearing brush and performing arduous physical tasks, U.S. Forest Service employees should return to a safe home base after work. Yet repeated inspections of national forests throughout Oregon during the last 10 years have found the opposite, with the Forest Service cited by federal inspectors for widespread safety violations nine out of every 10 visits.
Most recently, OSHA has cited the Forest Service for rampant and repeated workplace safety violations at two different ranger districts in eastern Oregon's Malheur National Forest, a 1.7 million acre woodland in the Blue Mountains.