Pet Food Supplier Chewy Wins Challenge to OSHA Fatality Citation

Pet supply retailer Chewy Inc. won a court victory Tuesday when a federal appeals court vacated an OSHA citation stemming from the death of a warehouse worker.

A three-judge panel with the Atlanta-based US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled that the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration used the wrong law to cite Chewy, and therefore the OSHA citation is vacated. The decision came just 12 days after oral arguments were held.

OSHA cited Chewy using the general duty clause, a law that requires employers to have workplaces free of known hazards that can be feasibly corrected. ...