Category: OSHA fine

Wal-Mart continues to fight the $7,000 OSHA fine in worker’s trampling death

NATIONAL – According to Newsday (7/8, Chang) reports, “A crowd management expert testified Thursday that the Valley Stream Walmart lacked adequate crowd control and safety measures in the 2008 Black Friday trampling death of a temporary worker.” Wal-Mart “is fighting a $7,000 fine from the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) after the death…

Wal-Mart spent over 1 MILLION in defense costs to vigorously fight a small $7,000 OSHA FINE in 2008 trampling death at one of its retail stores

NATIONAL – On the front page of its Business Day section, the New York Times (7/7, B1, Greenhouse) reports, “Wal-Mart Stores has spent a year and more than a million dollars in legal fees battling a $7,000 fine that federal safety officials assessed after shoppers trampled a Wal-Mart employee to death at a store on…