[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 5]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR1903.13]

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                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
CHAPTER XVII--OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT 
                                OF LABOR
 
PART 1903--INSPECTIONS, CITATIONS AND PROPOSED PENALTIES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 1903.13  Imminent danger.

    Whenever and as soon as a Compliance Safety and Health Officer 
concludes on the basis of an inspection that conditions or practices 
exist in any place of employment which could reasonably be expected to 
cause death or serious physical harm immediately or before the imminence 
of such danger can be eliminated through the enforcement procedures 
otherwise provided by the Act, he shall inform the affected employees 
and employers of the danger and that he is recommending a civil action 
to restrain such conditions or practices and for other appropriate 
relief in accordance with the provisions of section 13(a) of the Act. 
Appropriate citations and notices of proposed penalties may be issued 
with respect to an imminent danger even though, after being informed of 
such danger by the Compliance Safety and Health Officer, the employer 
immediately eliminates the imminence of the danger and initiates steps 
to abate such danger.