Workers across industries say they were required to work in close quarters with limited access to protective equipment in facilities that weren’t disinfected.
Health care, the US Postal Service, and supermarkets are the top industries for worker complaints of employers failing to protect them on the front lines of theBetween Jan. 1 and April 22, workers filed 7,328 complaints about working conditions with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration , according to updated data the agency released on Monday.
Workers in nursing care facilities have filed 233 complaints, or 3% of all the complaints filed. In total, workers in health care–related professions made up more than one-quarter of the total complaints. Though they represent only 2.5% of the total, at 182 complaints, supermarket workers filed the second-largest number of coronavirus-related allegations, voicing concerns about poor social distancing and disinfecting protocols and employers failing to provide personal protective equipment.
After supermarket employees, postal workers filed the second-most number of complaints , sending in their concerns at a disproportionately higher rate than workers as a whole. There are currently 44 open OSHA complaints from postal workers and 71 closed complaints. Many of those complaints say that postal workers were being forced to work in close quarters, or that surfaces weren’t being regularly disinfected. One complaint filed in Durham, North Carolina, on April 15 says that up to 50 workers in a postal facility “work closely together daily.”
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