On April 2, 2018, a worker at a railcar manufacturing facility in Cherokee, Alabama, was injured when he slipped and fell while walking across a roller bed platform. On April 10, 2018, Compliance Safety and Health Officer (CSHO) Javier Rodriguez of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration opened an inspection at the facility. After completing his inspection, Rodriguez recommended the Secretary cite FreightCar America, Inc., the corporate entity Rodriguez believed to be the owner and operator of the facility (and the employer of the injured worker), for a violation of § 5(a)(1), the general duty clause, of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (Act), 29 U.S.C. § 654(a)(1).