ELR Citation: ELR 21015
No(s). s. 1069-88, 1070-88 (Tex. Crim. App. Feb 13, 1991)

The court holds that the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act) does not preempt a state criminal prosecution of an employer for criminally negligent homicide in the deaths of employees. A corporation and its president pled nolo contendere to the offense of criminally negligent homicide in the...