Retaliatory termination claim under NYLL §740
Company: TeraWulf
The claim, verbatim
Plaintiff alleges his June 5, 2024 termination from the Lake Mariner facility was retaliation for objecting to workplace safety/OSHA violations and supervisor threats of violence; seeks reinstatement, back/front pay, punitive damages and a $10,000 civil penalty.
Source (primary)
Christman v. TeraWulf Inc. — Entry #1 (RECAP, court_filing)
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Quote: “Mr. Christman's termination was in retaliation for what Defendants knew or believed to be his protected activity of objecting to Defendants' workplace safety violations”
How we checked this
Checked on October 17, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The complaint pleads the June 5, 2024 termination as retaliation under NYLL §740 and lists each form of relief the claim names.
Confirmed in the source:
- The complaint says Christman was terminated on June 5, 2024.
- Christman worked at the Lake Mariner location.
- The complaint alleges the termination was retaliation for his objections to workplace safety/OSHA violations and his supervisor's threats of violence.
- The complaint seeks reinstatement, back pay, front pay, punitive damages and a $10,000 civil penalty.
What we did: Read our cached copy of RECAP (https://archive.org/download/gov.uscourts.nywd.151896/gov.uscourts.nywd.151896.1.0.pdf) in full (21,413 characters, retrieved October 16, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Christman v. TeraWulf Inc. — Entry #1
Quote: “Mr. Christman's termination was in retaliation for what Defendants knew or believed to be his protected activity of objecting to Defendants' workplace safety violations”