OSHA Comes Down Hard on Walmart for Repeat Violations

A Walmart Stores Inc. supercenter in Florida has been hit with a proposed penalty of nearly $120,000 for not following through on a settlement agreement to improve store safety, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced on Wednesday. The inspection was part of a corporate-wide settlement agreement the nation’s largest retailer made with OSHA in 2013 under which Walmart agreed to improve safety conditions in all of its stores and allow the agency to conduct “health-monitoring” inspections. OSHA inspected the store in Pensacola in September 2015, and on...