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Having watched a lot of Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board videos* i am a bit doubtful of that statement. Do you have firsthand knowledge here?

*Amazing videos, can really recommend them. https://www.youtube.com/@USCSB/videos

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OSHA inspectors really do take workplace injuries and safety seriously, regardless of how toothless the enforcement actions sometimes seem.

The real problem is that there are about 2000 OSHA inspectors in the country, working out of about 100 offices, and serving more than 100 million workers.

Does that count the Michigan OSHA inspectors? Do other states have their own inspection staff beyond Michigan? Honestly not sure, but I know Michigan runs that program independently as a history of the organized labor movement, and they have quite a few inspectors.

Nope, that's just Federal.

About half of the states have their own OSHA organizations, but I don't know much about how effective they are. In the northeast where I grew up most of the state-run OSHA orgs only dealt with state/county/city government jobs and left private employers to Federal OSHA.

Well, I have extensive OSHA training and a couple certifications, and I've worked in manufacturing companies (if not directly in the plants, but the awareness trainings were required).

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