BUSINESS BRIEFS
Security at sales events is stores' duty, police say
Associated Press
MINEOLA, N.Y. — Rope lines, numbered tickets and walkie-talkies for store employees could help control frenzied bargain-hunters, police said in a report issued after a Wal-Mart worker was killed in a Black Friday stampede.
Nassau County police released recommendations two weeks after meeting with 75 Long Island retailers about how to stage major sales events safely.
Retailers and police had debated who should take the lead on securing discount-hungry crowds after temporary Wal-Mart worker Jdimytai Damour was trampled to death the day after Thanksgiving in Valley Stream.
The report said that while county police would respond if needed, "the responsibility for the security and control of these sales events rests with the store. Store administrators should never market a sales event without having a plan, and the proper resources to manage it."
The police report said stores should plan security for sales events months in advance, assign enough staffers to manage expected customer traffic and train workers before the event.
Police said in the days after the stampede that Damour, 34, had no experience with crowd control and had been hired a week earlier from a temporary agency. He died of asphyxiation after being crushed by the crowd, authorities said.
MINER'S FAMILY TO GET FULL BENEFITS
SALT LAKE CITY — A coal company has been ordered to pay full benefits to the family of one of the six miners killed in the 2007 collapse of the Crandall Canyon mine.
An administrative judge for the Utah Labor Commission ordered Genwal Resources Inc. and Rockwood Casualty Insurance Co. to pay $565 per week for 312 weeks from the date of the cave-in to the family of Juan Carlos Payan, the Deseret News of Salt Lake reported yesterday. That's a total of more than $176,000.
In addition to the six miners killed on Aug. 6, 2007, three more people died in a later collapse during a failed rescue attempt. The mine was permanently closed and the miners' bodies were never recovered.
Payan's family said the 22-year-old miner was the main source of support for his disabled father, mother and two young siblings in Ensenada, Mexico.
SPORTS CASINO IN SPARKS, NEV., SOLD
SPARKS, Nev. — Baldini's Sports Casino in Sparks has been sold by the Baldwin family to a group of investors from Missoula, Mont., according to an official involved in the deal.
Grant Lincoln, an investor and president and CEO of United Coin Machine Co., said the group took ownership at midnight Wednesday.
The new owners will lease the casino operations that include 600 slot machines to Las Vegas-based United Coin, which has been approved by the Nevada Gaming Commission to run the casino.
Lincoln said current management will remain intact and no layoffs are planned.
2 DELL EXECUTIVES ON THEIR WAY OUT
ROUND ROCK, Texas — Computer maker Dell Inc. said Wednesday that Michael Cannon, president of global operations, and Mark Jarvis, chief marketing officer, will leave the company as part of a global restructuring.
Cannon will retire from the company effective Jan. 31 and be replaced by Jeff Clarke, whose formal title will become vice chairman of global operations and head of Dell's business client product group.
Jarvis is slated to leave Dell during this fiscal quarter, and will be replaced by Erin Nelson, formerly vice president of marketing for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Cannon and Jarvis will both remain consultants to the company, Dell said.
Both executives joined Dell in 2007 after its founder, Michael Dell, returned to the role of chief executive officer in a bid to halt the company's decline in the computer market.
