Other Services · Dallas, TX
Comet Cleaners
According to the U.S. Department of Labor (2010–2026), the Wage and Hour Division recovered $13,518 in back wages owed to 10 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
- $13,518
- Back wages owed
Comet Cleaners in Dallas, TX 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. Federal wage-and-hour enforcement records also show 11 WHD violations against this employer under the Fair Labor Standards Act. All enforcement data below is sourced from the DOL public enforcement databases at data.dol.gov.
Compliance score
- C Wage & hour compliance: $14K in back wages owed across 1 WHD case ($14K 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.
Comet Cleaners in the Other Services enforcement ledger
WHD back-wage recoveries in this sector place Comet Cleaners at rank #1,002 of 3,193 employers ($13,518 owed). Comet Cleaners carries no OSHA penalty in this extract but ranks #1,002 of 3,193 Other Services employers on WHD back wages ($13,518).
How Comet Cleaners Compares
Comet Cleaners in Dallas, TX 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, Premier Autobody Repair & Painting in Shelby Township, MI has 3 OSHA inspections on record.
No OSHA penalty has been assessed against Comet Cleaners to date. The Other Services sector average runs $3,070 per employer.
Wage & Hour Findings
The Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division found that Comet Cleaners owed $13,518 in back wages to 10 employees across 1 case and 11 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: Other Services
How Comet Cleaners compares to the Other Services sector, which has 6,486 employers tracked by PlainWorker.
| Metric | Comet Cleaners | Industry Avg |
|---|---|---|
| Inspections | 0 | 1.2 |
| Violations | 0 | 3.8 |
| Total Penalty | $0 | $3,070 |
| Avg Penalty per Inspection | $0 | $2,499 |
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What to do with this record
Use Comet Cleaners's enforcement history as one data point, not the whole picture.
- A single employer's record can look unusual in isolation. Compare Comet Cleaners against Premier Autobody Repair & Painting, a similarly-sized employer in the same sector, before drawing conclusions. Compare side-by-side
- See whether Comet Cleaners's inspection and penalty record is typical for Other Services or an outlier against the sector's own average. View the Other Services sector
- Comet Cleaners also carries $13,518 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.