{"id":8464,"date":"2012-05-15T12:27:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T16:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=8464"},"modified":"2012-05-15T12:27:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T16:27:11","slug":"how-market-baskets-changing-worker-safety-rules-after-osha-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2012\/05\/15\/how-market-baskets-changing-worker-safety-rules-after-osha-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"How Market Basket’s Changing Worker Safety Rules After OSHA Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Many grocery stores don't have the kinds of safety rules in place that DeMoulas recently agreed to<\/p><\/div>\n

Recently,Tewksbury, Massachusetts-based DeMoulas Supermarkets, Inc.<\/a> settled with the feds on a laundry list of major safety violations at Market Basket stores.\u00a0 As we’ve previously reported, OSHA slapped DeMoulas with $589,000 in fines<\/a> following store inspections in Concord and Rindge.\u00a0 Then, after considering a the number of serious, repeat, and willful violations, the agency went so far as to demand that DeMoulas systematically overhaul safety practices<\/a> at all 66 stores in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

That’s only the second time OSHA’s gone to that extreme.<\/p>\n

And while DeMoulas was able to settle the case with the feds, Patrick Meighan of the Nashua Telegraph<\/em> reports<\/a> that resolving the issue didn’t come cheap.\u00a0 The company still has to pay most of the fine–$400,000–and make franchise-wide safety improvements:<\/p>\n

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