Workers group says OSHA looking into possible violation.
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ROCHELLE —According to a national labor organization, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is looking into a possible violation at Rochelle’s Nippon Sharyo railroad car manufacturing plant.
In a press release on Wednesday, the Jobs to Move America coalition stated that OSHA found reasonable cause to believe that Nippon Sharyo violated the whistleblower protections of the National Transit Systems Security Act.
According to Jobs to Move America, the company allegedly terminated an employee in its Rochelle facility in response to her voicing safety concerns about fall hazards and for being suspected of filing safety and health complaints with OSHA.
This finding also reportedly confirmed that manufacturers of transit vehicles fall under the jurisdiction of NTSSA.
Nippon response