High-risk business: Dollar General continues to expose employees to workplace hazards with fire, this time electrical hazard found in Thomasville, Georgia

High-risk business: Dollar General continues to expose employees to workplace hazards with fire, this time electrical hazard found in Thomasville, Georgia

Thomasville, GA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Federal workplace health and safety inspectors are exposing workers to unsafe conditions despite fines of more than $15 million since 2017 At the facilities of Dol General Corporation and Dolgencorp LLC, we continue to discover workplace hazards. Time at a retail store in Thomasville, Georgia.

On June 14, 2022, inspectors from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Occupational Safety and Health found merchandise from the Thomasville store blocking an electrical panel and the only emergency exit door in the area. OSHA issued a subpoena for his repeated violations of her two violations of $290,054 in proposed penalties.

Since February 2022, OSHA inspections of 18 stores in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia have found dozens of similar violations that pose serious risks to employees and others in an emergency. I was. .

Since 2017, OSHA has cited Dollar General Corp. and Dolgencorp for numerous intentional and repeated serious workplace safety violations involving hazardous conditions in more than 180 inspections nationwide.

“Dollar General has a long history of ignoring safety measures that can compromise the well-being of those who work there, and that must change,” said Kurt Petermeyer, OSHA Regional Administrator for Atlanta. said. “The violations referred to in these investigations are preventable, and OSHA will make every effort to hold Dollar General accountable for its failures.”

OSHA’s inspections of the Southeastern Dollar General Stores for 2022 include:

• 7 inspections at Clay, Dothan, Odenville and Town Creek, Alabama. Panama City Beach, Florida. Georgia’s Darien and West Point identified his 31 violations in November for which he was fined $2,777,640. These violations are similar to those seen at other Dollar General Stores where lawsuits are pending.
• Four inspections in Mobile and Grove Hill, Alabama. Tampa, Florida. Georgia’s Dewey Rhodes disclosed numerous hazards in October for which he was proposed to be fined $1,682,302.
• Three inspections in Hogansville, Pembroke, Georgia and Smyrna, Georgia found workers exposed to fire, electricity and entrapment hazards, proposing $1,292,783 in penalties in August .
• Four inspections in Mobile, Alabama and Dalton, Georgia brought February’s proposed fine to $1,048,309.

Violations issued as a result of these inspections have resulted in Dollar General’s inclusion in OSHA’s Serious Violators Enforcement Program.

Headquartered in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, Dollar General Corporation and Dolgencorp LLC operate approximately 18,000 stores and 17 distribution centers in 47 states and employ more than 150,000 people.

Dollar General will, within 15 business days of receiving the subpoena and penalty, comply, request an informal meeting with an OSHA area director, or present the findings before an independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Board. object to

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Media Contact:

Eric R. Lucero, 678-237-0630, lucero.eric.r@dol.gov
Erika Ruthman, 678-237-0630, ruthman.erika.b@dol.gov

Release number: 22-2301-ATL

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