There's often a cost of standing up and being a whistleblower.
Steve Neavling of Motor City Muckraker reports that a sergeant with the Detroit Fire Department came forward and alerted the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration of serious violations at a firehouse in the Cass Corridor where recent inspection revealed long-neglected smoke and fire alarms, numerous fire hazards, an eroding ceiling and doors with no locks or handles.
Neavling reports that the guy is now in trouble.
He writes:
But the sergeant won’t be enjoying the improvements and repairs that are underway at the firehouse. After being cited for alerting MIOSHA, the sergeant was moved to a less desirable battalion.
“The Sgt. was disciplined for violating a chain of command policy,” Commissioner Edsel Jenkins wrote us in an e-mail.
