OSHA Inspection: WALGREENS - ST. THOMAS (#13846)

Issued

2025-11-19 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $6833.00 · Current $6833.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.22(a)(1): The employer did not ensure that all places of employment, passageways, storerooms, service rooms, and walking-working surfaces are kept in a clean, orderly, and sanitary condition.  On or about June 11, 2025, all places of employment were not kept in a clean and orderly condition by the employer:  a. At the base of the stockroom stairway. There was a measurement of 20 inches wide along the exit access due to the storage of boxes, flavored water and 62 oz juice on cardboard trays which reduced the exit path.  b. At the top of the stockroom stairway. There was a measurement of 23 inches wide along the exit access due to the storage of merchandise boxes which reduced the exit path.  c. At the upper-level stockroom towards the exit door.  Two wood crates with numerous merchandise cardboard boxes blocked the path to the exit door.   NOTE: Certification of abatement is not required as abatement was documented by the compliance safety and health officer during the inspection.

Issued

2025-11-19 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $6833.00 · Current $6833.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.37(b)(7): Each exit sign did not have the word "Exit" in plainly legible letters not less than six inches (15.2 cm) high, with the principal strokes of the letters in the word "Exit" not less than three-fourths of an inch (1.9 cm) wide.   a. On or about June 11,2025, on each exit sign in the workplace, the word ?Exit? was not in letters not less than six inches (15.2 cm high), with the principal strokes of the letters in the word ?Exit? not less than three-fourths of an inch (1.9 cm) wide.?  NOTE: Certification of abatement is not required as abatement was documented by the compliance safety and health officer during the inspection.