September 17, 2026

Court Backs OSHA Reading Of ‘Tiered’ Storage Rule In Enforcement Appeal


October 5, 2022 at 06:24 PM
A federal appeals court has overturned a 2020 Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC) decision that took a narrow reading of OSHA’s safety standard for goods “stored in tiers,” holding that Walmart violated the rule in a 2017 accident even though the items in question were held in shelves rather than stacked directly atop one another.

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