Accommodation & Food Services · Denver, CO
Brown Palace Hotel
According to the U.S. Department of Labor (2010–2026), the Wage and Hour Division recovered $9,171 in back wages owed to 32 affected workers across 1 wage-theft case.
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- OSHA penalties
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- Violations cited
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- OSHA inspections
- $9,171
- Back wages owed
Brown Palace Hotel in Denver, CO 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
- C Wage & hour compliance: $9K in back wages owed across 1 WHD case ($9K 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.
Brown Palace Hotel in the Accommodation & Food Services enforcement ledger
WHD back-wage recoveries in this sector place Brown Palace Hotel at rank #10,257 of 22,851 employers ($9,171 owed). Brown Palace Hotel carries no OSHA penalty in this extract but ranks #10,257 of 22,851 Accommodation & Food Services employers on WHD back wages ($9,171).
How Brown Palace Hotel Compares
Brown Palace Hotel in Denver, CO 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, La Huerta Grill in Fort Smith, AR has 0 OSHA inspections on record.
No OSHA penalty has been assessed against Brown Palace Hotel to date. The Accommodation & Food Services sector average runs $670 per employer.
Wage & Hour Findings
The Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division found that Brown Palace Hotel owed $9,171 in back wages to 32 employees across 1 case and 99 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: Accommodation & Food Services
How Brown Palace Hotel compares to the Accommodation & Food Services sector, which has 25,016 employers tracked by PlainWorker.
| Metric | Brown Palace Hotel | Industry Avg |
|---|---|---|
| Inspections | 0 | 0.2 |
| Violations | 0 | 0.5 |
| Total Penalty | $0 | $670 |
| Avg Penalty per Inspection | $0 | $2,941 |
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What to do with this record
Use Brown Palace Hotel's enforcement history as one data point, not the whole picture.
- A single employer's record can look unusual in isolation. Compare Brown Palace Hotel against La Huerta Grill, a similarly-sized employer in the same sector, before drawing conclusions. Compare side-by-side
- See whether Brown Palace Hotel's inspection and penalty record is typical for Accommodation & Food Services or an outlier against the sector's own average. View the Accommodation & Food Services sector
- Brown Palace Hotel also carries $9,171 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.