Home Depot is Charged with Occupational Safety and Health Violations

Home Depot is a large and very well known company. It is very surprising to discover one of it’s sites to fail OSHA inspection. It is critical that large as well as small companies and employers abide by the workers safety and health measures to avoid heavy fines and injury, the risk of increasing your NY Workers Compensation Experience Modification Factor; and or your NJ Workers Compensation Experience Modification factor. The NY Experience modification factor and the NJ experience modification factor also effect on your NY Workers Compensation Insurance premium and your NJ Workers Compensation premium. Your business may have to deal with Manhattan commercial general liability insurance, Queens Commercial General Liability Insurance, Bronx General Liability Insurance, Brooklyn commercial general  liability insurance, Staten Island commercial general liability insurance, Hudson County, NJ Commercial General Liability Insurance, or Union County NJ Commercial General Liability Insurance issues if your company is sited.

The Department of Labor is penalizing Home Depot in San Antonio for disregarding serious worker safety and health laws several times. Home Depot, San Antonio was found to have insufficient protective equipment and poor injury documentation. Home Depot is fined $70,500 for ineffective training regarding proper safety procedures and the use of safety equipment as well as neglecting to collect important health information from the company’s employees.

This particular Home Depot had several violations for the misuse of eye protection, lack of sufficient eye wash and quick rinsing amenities, inadequate record keeping, and incorrect  recognition of the form.