Healthcare & Social Assistance · Tuscaloosa, AL
Bear Creek Family Practice
According to the U.S. Department of Labor (2010–2026), the Wage and Hour Division recovered $5,315 in back wages owed to 13 affected workers across 1 wage-theft case.
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- Violations cited
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- OSHA inspections
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- Back wages owed
Bear Creek Family Practice in Tuscaloosa, AL 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. The employer also has 1 Wage and Hour Division (WHD) case on record, covering Fair Labor Standards Act enforcement. All enforcement data below is sourced from the DOL public enforcement databases at data.dol.gov.
Compliance score
- B Wage & hour compliance: $5K in back wages owed across 1 WHD case ($5K 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.
Bear Creek Family Practice in the Healthcare & Social Assistance enforcement ledger
WHD back-wage recoveries in this sector place Bear Creek Family Practice at rank #8,305 of 13,687 employers ($5,315 owed). Bear Creek Family Practice carries no OSHA penalty in this extract but ranks #8,305 of 13,687 Healthcare & Social Assistance employers on WHD back wages ($5,315).
How Bear Creek Family Practice Compares
Bear Creek Family Practice in Tuscaloosa, AL 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, Highbridge in Hamden, CT has 0 OSHA inspections on record.
No OSHA penalty has been assessed against Bear Creek Family Practice to date. The Healthcare & Social Assistance sector average runs $1,181 per employer.
Wage & Hour Findings
The Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division found that Bear Creek Family Practice owed $5,315 in back wages to 13 employees across 1 case and 16 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: Healthcare & Social Assistance
How Bear Creek Family Practice compares to the Healthcare & Social Assistance sector, which has 17,945 employers tracked by PlainWorker.
| Metric | Bear Creek Family Practice | Industry Avg |
|---|---|---|
| Inspections | 0 | 0.7 |
| Violations | 0 | 1.1 |
| Total Penalty | $0 | $1,181 |
| Avg Penalty per Inspection | $0 | $1,757 |
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What to do with this record
Use Bear Creek Family Practice's enforcement history as one data point, not the whole picture.
- A single employer's record can look unusual in isolation. Compare Bear Creek Family Practice against Highbridge, a similarly-sized employer in the same sector, before drawing conclusions. Compare side-by-side
- See whether Bear Creek Family Practice's inspection and penalty record is typical for Healthcare & Social Assistance or an outlier against the sector's own average. View the Healthcare & Social Assistance sector
- Bear Creek Family Practice also carries $5,315 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
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