In the recent Supreme Court hearings, the nominee was asked about his position on the Sea World Fatality with the killer whale. He disagreed with OSHA’s authority to cite Sea World and a member of Congress asked him about his decision. He stated “precedent” as to why he ruled that way and since then there have been many who have decried his position on OSHA’s authority to cite entertainment and sports industries. This week we have all seen the weather reporters standing out in the middle of a Cat 1 Hurricane screaming about how dangerous it was to be out in the storm. The governor of NC ordered everyone to evacuate and all of the local authorities have repeated that order. With this all known, we should be seeing NC-OSHA issuing many willful citations to news channels, weather stations, etc that had their EMPLOYEES out in the middle of a deadly storm. When we begin to see this type of action, I too will agree that Sea World deserves their willful citations and it was all about the worker’s rights and not the whale’s rights.