Covid-19 OSHA Complaint, Franklin Electric Co Inc, 9255 Coverdale Road, FORT WAYNE, IN, 46809, USA

9255 Coverdale Road, Fort Wayne, 46809 Indiana, United States

Company is failing to enact and enforce COVID guidelines placing employees at risk. There are more than 300 employees at this location working within close proximity to eachother in an open office space. There is no requirement to wear masks, so no one does. The company continues to make false claims regarding masks. These can be found in company emails. They state if you are worried you can wear a mask. They completely ignore that everyone needs to be wearing them in order to protect others. They also claim to have social distancing guidelines in place but fail to enforce them. As a result, numerous employees occupy and invade the space of others and routinely and purposely fail to follow the outlines for walking patterns. The result is a complete lack of social distancing. Furthermore, numerous employees have the ability to work 100 percent from home. Despite this, they decided everyone was required to return to the office. Again, the number of employees exceeds the max 250 person capacity as outlined in Indiana guidelines. Lastly, despite knowing there are numerous employees falling into the high risk category, because of the above they are daily subjected to lack of masks, lack of social distancing and an environment which threatens the health of the employees. As of today, an employee tested positive. Said employee's name was not disclosed. Nor the department where said employee works which further ads to the stress and confusion because you cannot determine if you had contact with said employee. It is imperative that Franklin follow the CDC and Indiana guidelines by allowing telework and mandating masks and social distancing.


Source: Osha.gov | Receipt Date: 2020-07-06 | Symptoms: Confusion