March 20, 2015 at 09:02 PM
OSHA has won a key victory for policy favoring expansive use of the OSH Act general duty clause, with Walmart Stores Inc. on Wednesday (March 18) pulling its longstanding legal challenge of a $7,000 OSHA citation arising from the trampling death of a store employee during a Black Friday sales event in 2008, and the agency lauding the move.