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Mattress Retailer Fined For Requiring Employees Drive Dangerous Truck

(Hillsboro, OR) -- Oregon OSHA has fined Mattress Megastore in Hillsboro more than 66-thousand dollars for multiple workplace safety violations. They include requiring employees to drive a delivery truck in the rain when the windshield wipers didn't work. The windshield had two large cracks that obscured the driver's line of sight. And, the driver's seatbelt didn't work. Employees were allegedly threatened with termination if they didn't use the truck. The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries is investigating whether that violated anti-retaliation provisions of the Oregon Safe Employment Act. Mattress Megastore has 30 days to appeal.

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