 osha going after small family farms  an excerpt from wwwonlinewsjcom on how family owned farms are being targeted by osha   since the 1970s annual federal appropriations bills have explicitly prohibited the federal workplace overseer from descending on small family farms specifically osha does not have jurisdiction over farming operations with 10 or fewer employees    but osha officials have found a novel way to circumvent this statutory restraint the regulators have simply claimed the authority to rewrite the definition of farming a remarkable 2011 memo from osha s enforcement chief to regional administrators at first acknowledges that the law prevents the agency from regulating small farms engaged in growing and harvesting crops and any related activities but then the memo proceeds to instruct employees on how to recategorize small farms as commercial grain handlers so osha inspectors have recently begun to descend on family farms claiming the authority to regulate their grain storage bins  read about how osha is violating the law by going after family farms http onlinewsjcom news articles sb10001424052702303799404579284611071783686 