OSHA Scores General-Duty Win As Walmart Capitulates On Trampling Case

OSHA has won a key victory for policy favoring expansive use of the OSH Act general duty clause, with Walmart Stores Inc. on Wednesday (March 18) pulling its longstanding legal challenge of a $7,000 OSHA citation arising from the trampling death of a store employee during a Black Friday sales event in 2008, and the agency lauding the move. A Walmart spokesman tells Inside OSHA Online that while it still disagrees with the OSHA citation, Walmart sees the review...