Constitutional Opinion No. 2026-0740
Case Information
- Content Scored
- OSHA Settlement: Monro Inc. Pays $174K, Adds Worker Safety Hotline Across 1,100 Locations (July 13, 2026)
- Source
- U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (dol.gov)
- Author
- U.S. Department of Labor / OSHA
- Publication Date
- 2026-07-13
- Content Type
- Government Press Release
- Opinion Issued
- 2026-07-19
- AFCS Version
- 1.0
Holding
This is the fourth worker-protection enforcement release in the record, and it scores at the top of that cluster because, like the wage-recovery action, it produces a concrete forward-looking remedy rather than a penalty alone. The company agreed to pay $174,000 to settle safety violations — including slip-and-fall hazards, improperly stored oily rags, a missing eyewash station, electrical hazards, and a repeat violation involving a four-post rotary lift with a broken safety latch cable held in place with a pair of vice grips — and, crucially, to set up a free, anonymous hotline for employees across its 1,100 locations to report safety and health concerns. That is the government enforcing the law to protect the American worker (XVIII, whose subject is the safety of the citizen), and the settlement's systemic remedy — a standing channel for workers at eleven hundred sites to surface hazards — is a concrete, prospective protection that lifts it a notch above the penalty-only citations (II). Like its siblings, it rests on federal safety regulation a limited-government reading treats with some caution, but it enforces existing law without expanding government and advances no new mandate (IX, mixed). All four enforcement actions are the government protecting the American worker; what separates them is whether they produce a concrete positive outcome beyond deterrence — the wage action returned stolen earnings (0737, 70), this builds a standing reporting channel (70), the two pure-penalty citations deter without a comparable make-whole (0738, 0739, both 69). Tier 1 nets to 65; the result is 70 — Mostly America First.
It is the judgment of this Court that Opinion No. 2026-0740 is hereby entered into the record, in accordance with the America First Constitutional Standard. The score stands. The reasoning is published. The record is public.