⚖ Oral Arguments, with Context

The Eleventh Circuit hears Masis Staffing Solutions versus OSHA, a dispute over a staffing agency's responsibility for workplace safety. Masis supplied workers to Ridgway, which ran the worksite. The case arose when a bundle of trusses left standing upright fell and crushed a Masis worker. An on-site supervisor knew workers had previously stood bundles upright and had warned them about the danger. OSHA cited Masis for violating a materials-storage safety standard. An administrative law judge upheld the citation, finding that the supervisor's knowledge of the dangerous practice counted as knowledge by Masis itself. The judge also rejected Masis's defense that the violation resulted from employee misconduct it could not reasonably prevent. That is the background to two questions you will hear: who actually had authority to correct the danger, and what the company had to know about it. Masis will contend that the supervisor's authority came from Ridgway, not Masis, and that earlier warnings addressed the hazard. The Labor Department will respond that Masis remained responsible for its own employees, that the unsafe practice continued, and that verbal warnings were not enough. They will also dispute whether temporarily putting the bundles aside amounted to storage covered by the cited rule.

Masis Staffing Solutions, LLC v. OSHA (No. 25-12691) — U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, argued July 31, 2026.