Alleged OSHA safety violations at Lake Mariner
Company: TeraWulf
The claim, verbatim
Plaintiff alleges significant OSHA violations at Lake Mariner, including lack of training for operating a 30-foot bucket truck, employees jumping in dumpsters to pack garbage, and supervisor threats of physical violence.
Source (primary)
Christman v. TeraWulf Inc. — Entry #1 (RECAP, court_filing)
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Quote: “Mr. Christman complained about significant Occupational Safety Health Administration ("OSHA") violations including the lack of training for operating Defendants' 30-foot bucket truck”
How we checked this
Checked on October 17, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
Paragraph 53 of the complaint lists each of these complaints. The complaint presents the supervisor's threats alongside the OSHA examples ('as well as') rather than strictly as one of them.
Confirmed in the source:
- The complaint alleges Christman complained about significant OSHA violations.
- The complaint cites lack of training for operating the defendants' 30-foot bucket truck.
- The complaint cites employees being made to jump in dumpsters to pack down garbage.
- The complaint cites the supervisor's threats of physical violence toward employees.
- Christman worked at, and raised these complaints with the plant manager of, the Lake Mariner location.
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 complained about significant Occupational Safety Health Administration ("OSHA") violations including the lack of training for operating Defendants' 30-foot bucket truck”