Dollar General Corp. exposes employees to workplace safety and health hazards at stores in Boone and Harrison counties

The following press release was published by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Sept. 28, 2015. It is reproduced in full below.

Proposed penalties: $169,000

Madison store: $103,000

West Milford store: $66,000

Quote: "Dollar General's negligence in protecting employees from these hazards despite the number of times they have been brought to the company's attention is alarming," said Prentice Cline, OSHA's area director in Charleston. "It only takes one fire emergency for workers to get hurt or killed because of the company's faulty safety practices. These hazards need to be eliminated immediately to prevent a tragic incident from occurring."

View the citations: http://www.osha.gov/ooc/citations/DollarGeneral_1048760_921_15.pdf

http://www.osha.gov/ooc/citations/DollarGeneral_1059564_0921_15.pdf

To ask questions; obtain compliance assistance; file a complaint; or report amputations, eye loss, workplace hospitalizations, fatalities or situations posing imminent danger to workers, the public should call OSHA's toll-free hotline at 800-321-OSHA (6742) or the agency's Charleston Area Office at 304-347-5937.

Source: Occupational Safety and Health Administration