Retail giant Wal-Mart appears to be out $10 million in connection with a serious injury suffered by a truck driver who was making a delivery to one of the chain’s stores in northern Colorado.
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Tags: Colorado, jury verdict, slip and fall, Wal-Mart
This much is clear: If a worker contacts OSHA about a workplace safety problem, and the company fires the employee for that reason, that worker is eligible for whistleblower protection. But this case is somewhat different.
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Tags: fire exit, retaliatory discharge, Wal-Mart, whistleblower
Sixteen states now have medical marijuana laws. A Wal-Mart employee, fired after a positive post-injury drug test for marijuana, says his dismissal violated one of those state laws.
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Tags: drug test, medical marijuana, unlawful termination, Wal-Mart
Two years after a Wal-Mart employee was killed by stampeding Black Friday shoppers, it appears retailers have protected their employees to a point where there were no reported serious injuries this year. But as one video shows, the stampedes didn’t go away.
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Tags: Black Friday stampede, OSHA best practices, Target, Wal-Mart
In 2008, an employee was trampled to death while shoppers rushed through the doors of a Wal-Mart for Black Friday sales. OSHA wants to prevent a repeat of that fatality.
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Tags: crowd control, employee trampled, Wal-Mart
An employee engaged in unsafe horseplay at work. He got warnings, including a final one, but was caught once again on videotape. He was fired, and the case eventually went to court.
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Tags: final warning, horseplay, Wal-Mart
The New York Times reports that Wal-Mart has spent $2 million so far fighting a $7,000 OSHA fine in connection with the trampling death of a worker. Equally interesting is that OSHA has also devoted lots of resources to make sure this fine sticks. Why? Because the outcome of this case could have wide reaching effects on all sorts of companies.
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Almost one year after a Wal-Mart employee was trampled to death by “Black Friday” shoppers, OSHA has issued crowd control guidelines for retailers. And Wal-Mart contested the fine associated with the case.
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Tags: crowd control, trampling death, Wal-Mart
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