The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) said Tuesday three GOP-led states may lose the authority to oversee workplace safety, citing failures to adopt federal emergency standards for COVID-19. OSHA, a regulatory agency within the United States Department of Labor, listed Arizona, Utah, and South Carolina as three states that have not accepted federal emergency temporary standards as a safeguard for COVID-19 or provided a sufficient alternative. Of the 28 states or territories with OSHA-approved state plans, only three states have been notified of failure. “OSHA has worked in good faith to help these three state plans come into compliance,” OSHA acting assistant secretary Jim Frederick told reporters. “But their continued refusal is a failure to maintain their state plan commitment to thousands of workers in their state.” Emily H. Farr, South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation director, expressed disappointment in the news, according to the New York …