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The Occupational Security and Well being Administration, or OSHA, has issued a quotation in opposition to Amazon, alleging that the corporate violated security legal guidelines and didn’t hold staff in three warehouses protected. The regulator has additionally proposed $60,269 in penalties associated to the violations — a drop within the bucket for an organization that recorded over $127 billion in gross sales throughout the third quarter of 2022 alone however a comparatively excessive penalty in comparison with most of the ones it confronted from OSHA earlier than.
In line with a press launch, the quotation stems from inspections at three warehouses positioned in Deltona, Florida, Waukegan, Illinois, and New Windsor, New York. OSHA says that Amazon “uncovered staff to ergonomic, struck-by hazards” within the location, placing them at…
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