Kings Highway Rite Aid Faces $83,200 Fine For Safety Issues

A Rite Aid at 185 Kings Highway faces $83,200 in fines from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration after the agency found “employees faced potential injuries from severe lacerations and falls of up to 11 feet due to a lack of required safeguards,” reports the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

The article also detailed some of the other violations:

Inspectors found workers at the Kings Highway store exposed to falls of up to 11 feet through an unguarded opening adjacent to a conveyor used to move stock from the basement to the sales floor level.

Workers also faced hazards due to an uncovered section between a conveyor belt and its drive mechanism. In addition, accumulated merchandise and garbage on the storage room floor exposed workers to trip-and-fall hazards.

Back in September, we wrote about the department fining CVS on 2151 86th Street for nearly $200,000.