Complaint About Locked-in Employees Results in OSHA Fines SafetyNext
OSHA has proposed $74,000 in fines for a Mobile, Alabama, Winn Dixie store following an inspection the agency began after it received a complaint alleging that night-shift employees at the store were locked in with no means of exiting the building.

'Employers must assure that employees have ready access to an emergency exit,' says Ken Atha, OSHA's Mobile area director. 'Medical assistance was delayed to an employee at this store because all exits and entrances were either locked or blocked.'