Wal-Mart Agrees to Pay $750,000 Civil Penalty for Delay in Reporting Exercise Equipment Hazard
Released: Friday, April 25, 2003 by CPSC
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and the U.S. Department of Justice announced today that Wal-Mart Stores Inc., of Bentonville, Ark., has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $750,000. The penalty resolves a lawsuit filed in May 2001 by the Justice Department, on behalf of CPSC, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, in which the government charged Wal-Mart with failing to report safety hazards associated with home exercise equipment.
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