OSHA + DOL WHD Federal public records

Workplace enforcement, in the open

Which employers are breaking the rules — and what it cost them

Every OSHA safety inspection and Department of Labor wage-theft case, aggregated from the official federal releases into one searchable record for 232,214 U.S. employers.

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232,214
Employers tracked: 870,394
OSHA violations cited: $1.46B
Penalties assessed: $2.89B
Back wages recovered

The national picture

Federal regulators logged 870,394 OSHA violations and recovered $2.89B in stolen wages — the enforcement record now sits in public view, employer by employer.

$1.46B
in OSHA penalties assessed: 552,446
serious violations cited: 99,094
wage-theft cases resolved: $1,674
average penalty per violation

Source: U.S. Department of Labor — OSHA enforcement extracts and Wage & Hour Division compliance data.

Manufacturing

350,066
Construction

198,488
Public Administration

61,240
Wholesale Trade

36,451
Administrative & Waste Services

34,378
Transportation & Warehousing

31,973
Other Services

24,086
Retail Trade

21,841

What this shows Manufacturing and Construction together account for the majority of all cited violations — the two sectors where OSHA inspectors find the most to flag. Manufacturing alone carries 350,066 citations.

Highest OSHA penalties

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#	Employer	Violations	Penalty
1	Keystone Construction & Maintenance Middletown, CT	112	$6.5M
2	Daehan Solution Nevada, LLC. Fernley, NV	109	$4.7M
3	Miracapo Pizza Company LLC DBA Little Lady Foods Gurnee, IL	32	$3.1M
4	MDLG, INC. Phenix City, AL	54	$2.7M
5	The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Danville, VA	240	$2.6M
6	Joon, LLC Cusseta, AL	55	$2.5M
7	Sunfield, INC. Hebron, OH	152	$2.5M
8	Didion Milling, INC. Cambria, WI	63	$2.2M
9	Thomas Builders of Virginia, INC. Lynchburg, VA	26	$2.0M
10	Great White Construction, INC. Saint Augustine, FL	15	$1.7M

Largest wage-theft recoveries

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#	Employer	Workers	Back wages
1	Holland Services Washington, PA	700	$25.9M
2	MD Dept. Of Public Safety and Corrections Baltimore, MD	9,298	$22.5M
3	Puerto Rico Police Department San Juan, PR	8,758	$20.7M
4	Halliburton Houston, TX	1,013	$18.2M
5	Inverness Technologies, Inc. Annandale, VA	770	$14.6M
6	Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) California City, CA	362	$8.1M
7	Kroger Cincinnati, OH	19,362	$7.9M
8	Supreme Labor Source (Sub to RDI) Clarksville, TN	0	$7.3M
9	Municipio DE San Juan San Juan, PR	2,400	$5.6M
10	Hewlett-Packard Palo Alto, CA	565	$5.2M

Enforcement by state

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1 California 19,302 employers $116.0M penalties 2 New Jersey 9,143 employers $114.3M penalties 3 Texas 19,293 employers $110.6M penalties 4 Ohio 6,972 employers $105.5M penalties 5 Illinois 9,262 employers $95.6M penalties 6 Pennsylvania 9,060 employers $71.6M penalties 7 New York 18,031 employers $68.3M penalties 8 Wisconsin 4,084 employers $61.9M penalties 9 Florida 11,585 employers $57.2M penalties 10 Georgia 6,224 employers $56.6M penalties

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Manufacturing leads U.S. industries at $7,519 in OSHA penalties per inspection

Manufacturing ($7,519 per inspection), Retail Trade ($4,744) and Wholesale Trade ($4,730) top the sectors by average OSHA penalty intensity — a four-fold gap between the highest- and lowest-penalty industries.

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Goodyear, Sinclair and Connecticut schools top employers by serious OSHA violations

Goodyear Tire (202 serious violations), Sinclair Wyoming Refining (161) and Connecticut Technical Education (146) lead U.S. employers in serious-violation counts — a concentration of repeat-violator patterns.

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Texas, California and New York lead states in recovered back wages

Texas ($350.6M back wages), California ($283.1M) and New York ($199.5M) lead U.S. states in total back wages recovered through federal wage enforcement — a ten-fold gap top to bottom.

Where to start

Three ways into 232,214 employers' federal safety and wage records.

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Every figure traces to the public OSHA and DOL Wage & Hour enforcement record and reflects past inspections, not current workplace conditions.

Frequently Asked Questions

What data does PlainWorker provide?

PlainWorker aggregates OSHA inspection and DOL Wage & Hour Division enforcement records for 232,214 U.S. employers, including violations, penalties, back-wage recoveries, and repeat-violator history.

What types of violations are tracked?

The data includes OSHA workplace safety violations (serious, willful, and repeat citations) and DOL Wage and Hour Division findings covering minimum wage, overtime, and other federal labor-law cases.

Where does the data come from?

Two federal public-record sources: OSHA enforcement inspection extracts and the Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division compliance database. Both are released by the U.S. Department of Labor.

About this data

Sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor — OSHA enforcement data (inspections and violations, 2010–2026) and the Wage and Hour Division compliance database. The set covers 383,267 workplace inspections, 870,394 citations, and 99,094 wage enforcement cases. Listed employers have at least two OSHA inspections or $1,000+ in WHD back wages on record.