Transportation & Warehousing · Oakland, CA
AC Transit
According to the U.S. Department of Labor (2010–2026), the Wage and Hour Division recovered $103,479 in back wages owed to 21 affected workers across 3 wage-theft cases.
- $0
- OSHA penalties
- 0
- Violations cited
- 0
- OSHA inspections
- $103,479
- Back wages owed
AC Transit in Oakland, CA has been the subject of 0 OSHA workplace inspections and 0 citations since 2010, according to enforcement records from the U.S. Department of Labor. Separately, the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division found $103,479 in back wages owed to 21 affected workers. All enforcement data below is sourced from the DOL public enforcement databases at data.dol.gov.
Compliance score
- F Wage & hour compliance: $103K in back wages owed across 3 WHD cases ($34K per case), vs. national p10 $2K (best) / p90 $58K (worst) among 91,622 employers with a WHD case on file.
Channels are separate federal datasets: a dimension marked not applicable simply has no record in that dataset for this employer, not a good or bad score.
AC Transit in the Transportation & Warehousing enforcement ledger
WHD back-wage recoveries in this sector place AC Transit at rank #298 of 3,616 employers ($103,479 owed). AC Transit carries no OSHA penalty in this extract but ranks #298 of 3,616 Transportation & Warehousing employers on WHD back wages ($103,479).
How AC Transit Compares
AC Transit in Oakland, CA has no OSHA inspection on record with PlainWorker. An absence of federal inspection activity is not the same as a clean safety record, it typically means this employer has not yet been selected for inspection under OSHA's targeting programs. By comparison, Trinity Couriers of Denver, Inc. in Aurora, CO has 0 OSHA inspections on record.
No OSHA penalty has been assessed against AC Transit to date. The Transportation & Warehousing sector average runs $6,129 per employer.
Wage & Hour Findings
The Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division found that AC Transit owed $103,479 in back wages to 21 employees across 3 cases and 25 violations. WHD enforces federal labor laws including the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), covering minimum wage, overtime pay, and child labor standards.
Industry Safety Context: Transportation & Warehousing
How AC Transit compares to the Transportation & Warehousing sector, which has 9,914 employers tracked by PlainWorker.
| Metric | AC Transit | Industry Avg |
|---|---|---|
| Inspections | 0 | 1.9 |
| Violations | 0 | 3.2 |
| Total Penalty | $0 | $6,129 |
| Avg Penalty per Inspection | $0 | $3,295 |
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What to do with this record
Use AC Transit's enforcement history as one data point, not the whole picture.
- A single employer's record can look unusual in isolation. Compare AC Transit against Roth Trucking, a similarly-sized employer in the same sector, before drawing conclusions. Compare side-by-side
- See whether AC Transit's inspection and penalty record is typical for Transportation & Warehousing or an outlier against the sector's own average. View the Transportation & Warehousing sector
- AC Transit also carries $103,479 in Wage and Hour Division back-wages, a separate enforcement track from OSHA safety violations. How wage-theft enforcement works
Figures reflect closed OSHA and WHD federal enforcement actions on record (2010–2026); not every workplace issue results in an inspection or investigation.
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Data as of 2026. Source: U.S. Department of Labor (OSHA, WHD).
Source: OSHA Enforcement Data
Inspection and violation records from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), U.S. Department of Labor, covering the period 2010–2026. Includes inspection dates, violation types (serious, willful, repeat, other-than-serious), and penalty amounts. Penalties shown are current assessed amounts and may differ from original citations due to settlement, contest, or reduction.
Source: Wage and Hour Division (WHD)
Compliance actions from the WHD, covering enforcement of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), including minimum wage, overtime, and child labor violations. Back wages represent amounts owed to affected employees as determined by WHD investigations.
Employer Matching
Employers are matched across OSHA and WHD datasets by name, state, and city. Employers included in PlainWorker have 2 or more OSHA inspections or $1,000+ in WHD back wages. Data is updated monthly from data.dol.gov.