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OSHA Says Trucking Co. Retaliated against Ill Drivers

By Jim Sams (Senior Editor)

Friday, January 3, 2014 | 0

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Thursday it has ordered Oak Harbor Freight Lines Inc. to compensate a worker who refused to drive in violation of safety regulations.OSHA did not say how much compensation it ordered the company to pay. But it said it also ordered the trucking company, based in Auburn, Wash., to stop retaliating against workers who refuse to drive trucks while too ill or fatigued to safely operate vehicles at its facilities.A commercial truck driver working for the company in Portland, Ore., was suspended without pay indefinitely before being fired in...

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