George Lang has been working with Sodexo laundry services in Pennsylvania for close to 11 years. George has had numerous concerns with the Pittsburgh facility.

For example, he notes that, "The place was in bad condition. There was bad equipment, people working with insufficient equipment to get the job done. There were major safety issues with leaking ceilings, busted up carts, understaffing, and maintenance issues."

Even now, George and his fellow employees find the work hard to complete, especially when equipment breaks down and there is insufficient maintenance to fix it.

OSHA has cited Sodexo at George's laundry for problems with lockout-tagout procedures, an important step in shutting down machines that are being serviced or out of use. George reports witnessing workers and managers being injured by reaching into machines that were supposed to be "locked out", but instead were accidentally turned on.

George feels lucky to be part of a union that is working to address management's lack of responsibility around these safety issues. Unfortunately, it took several OSHA citations and fines for Sodexo to start paying attention to problems that are putting workers at risk. "When OSHA came in it made a big difference," George says, "because now they see significant pressure, besides the union, to do things correctly. The hefty fines will put them in the right direction."

In the video above, watch George discuss the pressures of working in a facility with a record of OSHA violations, and the various safety problems he has seen as a Sodexo laundry distribution worker.