Walmart spends millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours fighting $7,000 fine for worker death

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The New York Times reported today that Walmart is spending millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours fighting a $7,000 fine assessed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) after a Walmart employee was trampled to death by a crowd at a store on Long Island.

Though the company has taken steps to address the problems that led to the unfortunate incident, it is continuing to resist the fine because it feels that “the government is improperly trying to define ‘crowd trampling’ as an occupational hazard that retailers must take action to prevent”

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"If they spend a few millions now, they may be able to save hundreds of millions later when this and maybe other employee civil suits will follow?"

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