I have been working at a certain car wash in Pennsylvania for a few years now. This place is a wreck! Hardly any of the chemicals are labeled. The lights on the walls in the tunnel have been busted out for years. They are still "hot" but dont have covers, and if you touch them the shock you pretty good. And if you make them wet they smoke and crack (remember its a car wash)The metal plates we walk on are just sitting on rails and slip out all the time. And it's about a 3 foot drop into mud and concrete, then the plate also ways over 50 lb. Alot of the time there is only one person there so if you do fall in infront of a car you have to get out quick so the car doesnt run you over because there is nobody there to stop the track.The fire extinguishers(I know I butchered that one) are way out of date.The hot water heater has rust holes the whole way through it.Cracks in the walls you can see the light of day through. The vacum switch shocks you when its wet. When the rollers get stuck we have to just reach down and pull them out by hand. No lockout tags or anything.And if someone on the other end doesnt know your doing it and turns the track on you can say by to your arm :(
I can go on and on if you want me to lol.
Now heres the hard part.... Since the manager has been gone for a year I have kinda been nominated as the head chief and Im scared that if I report them it will come down on me even though I have 100% nothing to do with it.
Plus there are only 3 of us that work there and the other 2 guys are kinda just "there" so the owner will figure it out very quick who it was.
So what can I do ASAP?
We are hoestly getting to the point we are scared to go to work because we dont know what will happen to us next...

Call OSHA.

Sent them an email this morning, I was scared all day at work but I didnt hear anything "yet" ;)

chuck, if the conditions you described do really exist, call OSHA. There is a "Whistle Blower Protection Act." They will respond to written compliants and pay a visit to your work place.

http://www.osha.gov/dep/oia/whistleblower/index.html

This posting is over a year old; I'm sure the OP's issue has been addressed by now.