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Eisman family urges committee to reduce MIOSHA reporting penalty; committee hears House Bill 4017 testimony
Summary
Family members who operate a small farm in Blissfield told the Michigan House Agriculture Committee that they were fined after a 2019 on-farm death and asked legislators to support House Bill 4017, which would reduce MIOSHA penalties for qualifying family farm operations.
Family members from a Blissfield farm told the Michigan House Agriculture Committee that the state's current MIOSHA reporting rule and penalties compounded their grief after a 2019 on-farm death and asked legislators to support House Bill 4017, which would reduce the penalty for failing to report an accident on a family farm operation.
"To expect anyone who had just lost a spouse or a brother ... to call a government agency and notify them of a death during the first eight hours ... and then penalize them with a maximum fine is unrealistic, heartless, and cruel," Barbara Eiseman told the committee as she described finding her husband deceased on the barn floor on Nov. 26, 2019.
Barbara Eiseman and relatives said their farm later received a $5,000 fine for failing to report the death within eight hours and an additional $12,000 in other penalties following the MIOSHA inspection and…
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