OSHA Orders $230K in Back Pay Damages to Trucking Co. Whistleblower

An Arizona trucking firm must reinstate and pay $230,000 in back wages and compensatory damages to a former employee who raised concerns that a driver had exceeded the legally allowed maximum number of driving hours, if an order by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration is upheld. OSHA found that Core-Mark International's owners violated the Surface Transportation Assistance Act's whistleblower provisions when they terminated the employee after he went outside his chain of command in 2011 to report that one of the company's drivers had exceeded maximum driving ...