OSHA fines Redmond Lowe’s $18,100 for COVID-19 infractions
Published 4:11 pm Monday, April 19, 2021
- Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse.
The Lowe’s hardware store branch in Redmond was hit with $18,100 in fines Monday from Oregon Occupational Safety and Health — better known as OSHA — for multiple COVID-19 violations.
The biggest penalty, costing $17,500, was for not requiring customers to wear face coverings, according to an OSHA press release. State inspections found that Lowe’s branch supervisors knew of the state-mask mandate, and willfully chose to ignore it, the release stated.
The Lowe’s store in Albany received an identical fine Monday for the same reason.
The store also received two $300 fines for not creating a risk assessment plan to identify possible employee exposure to COVID-19, or an infection control plan, the release stated.