Minnesota Administrative Rules
Agency 151 - Labor and Industry Department
Chapter 5210 - OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
INVESTIGATIONS; CITATIONS; NOTICE OF CONTEST; MODIFYING ABATEMENT DATE; ABATEMENT VERIFICATION
Part 5210.0450 - OBJECTION TO INVESTIGATION

Upon a refusal to permit an occupational safety and health investigator, in the exercise of official duties, to enter without delay and at reasonable times any place of employment or any place therein, to inspect and investigate, to review documents, or to question privately any employer, owner, operator, agent, or employee, or to permit a representative of employees to accompany the investigator during the physical inspection of any place of employment, the investigator shall terminate the investigation or confine the investigation to other areas, conditions, structures, machines, apparatus, devices, equipment, materials, documents, or interviews concerning which no objection is raised. The investigator shall endeavor to ascertain the reason for the refusal, and shall immediately report the refusal and the reason for the refusal to the commissioner.

Statutory Authority: MS s 182.657