In the OSHA area, Ms. McMahon-Lohrer advises the steel, leather tanning, electroplating, chromium manufacturing, shipbuilding, chemical and industrial laundry industries, as well as many other clients, on a wide array of OSHA regulatory compliance issues including hazard communications, ergonomics, Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER), process safety management, lock-out/tag-out, machine guarding, personal protective equipment use, hearing conservation and recordkeeping issues. She has worked with her clients to develop risk management and hazard assessment tools to identify and address workplace risks. Ms. McMahon-Lohrer has represented industry stakeholders in all aspects of a number of significant OSHA rulemakings, including the hexavalent chromium rulemaking. She also defends her clients in state and federal administrative litigation over agency citations.
In the environmental area, Ms. McMahon-Lohrer represents manufacturing concerns and trade associations in a broad range of regulatory compliance matters, from Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) permitting to Clean Water Act compliance. She also handles judicial and administrative environmental litigation, including CERCLA contribution actions, Department of Justice (DOJ) enforcement matters, and federal and state administrative actions against her clients.
Prior to earning her law degree, Ms. McMahon-Lohrer worked in the political arena, serving as a political assistant to Congressman Richard Gephardt, Senator Gary Hart, and Alabama Attorney General Charlie Graddick. She also served as Field Director of National Management Associates, a political consulting firm.
Representative Experience
Represented the industrial laundry association in developing an interactive hazard assessment tool to identify and address risk in industrial laundry operations.Represented a coalition of U.S. manufacturing interests, including chromium producers, in OSHA’s hexavalent chromium administrative rulemaking process.
Represented a coalition of the leather, steel, convenience store and soft drink industries in rulemaking proceedings on OSHA’s ergonomics standard.
Represented a chemical company in conducting a process safety management applicability determination.
Represented private manufacturing interest in heat stress citation before state occupational safety and health authority.
Represented soft drink company in numerous administrative citations, including general duty clause citations relating to ergonomics issues.
Defended a U.S. state in a lawsuit brought by regional utility companies over a licensing decision for a low-level radioactive waste disposal facility.
Represented a group of leather tannery PRPs in negotiating with other PRPs and USEPA over CERCLA responsibility and allocation issues for multiple Superfund Sites in upstate New York.
Represented a traumatic brain injury plaintiff in a Rehabilitation Act claim against the U.S. Department of Defense.
