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Target Corporation reached a settlement agreement with OSHA in the fall of 2020 to resolve a series of cases before the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission involving blocked exits at stores in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York. for similar violations–blocked electrical panels and exit routes and improperly stacked cartons–at its Dollar Tree and Family Dollar stores. OSHA has also cited Dollar General’s competitor Dollar Tree Inc.
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"We will use our full enforcement powers to hold Dollar General accountable for its ongoing pattern of behavior until they show that they take worker safety seriously,” Parker said.
OSHA has conducted 182 inspections since 2017 at Dollar General locations nationwide often finding unsafe conditions that put workers’ safety at risk if they need to exit quickly in an emergency. "Once again, our inspectors have found Dollar General stores ignoring federal safety standards and exposing their employees to hazardous working conditions in violation of the law,” Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health Doug Parker said in an agency statement. Other violations cited included exposing workers to fire and entrapment hazards by failing to keep exit routes and electrical panels clear and unobstructed, failing to mount and label fire extinguishers, and having a locked exit door that required a key to open. These violations cited would expose workers to hazards associated with slips, trips and being struck-by objects.
The $1.6 million in new penalties is a portion of more than $9.6 million in total initial penalties the company has received since 2017, OSHA announced October 17.Īgency inspectors cited the retailer for four willful and 10 repeat violations for failing to keep receiving and storage areas clean and orderly, and stacking materials in an unsafe manner after inspections conducted in April in Mobile and Grove Hill, Alabama Tampa, Florida and Dewy Rose, Georgia. and its parent Dolgencorp LLC, proposing $1,682,302 in new penalties, following inspections of four locations in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has again cited Dollar General Corp.
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