Accommodation & Food Services · Cincinnati, OH
El Jinete Mexican Restaurant
According to the U.S. Department of Labor (2010–2026), the Wage and Hour Division recovered $54,907 in back wages owed to 23 affected workers across 2 wage-theft cases.
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- Back wages owed
El Jinete Mexican Restaurant in Cincinnati, OH 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 $54,907 in back wages owed to 23 affected workers. All enforcement data below is sourced from the DOL public enforcement databases at data.dol.gov.
Compliance score
- D Wage & hour compliance: $55K in back wages owed across 2 WHD cases ($27K 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.
El Jinete Mexican Restaurant in the Accommodation & Food Services enforcement ledger
WHD back-wage recoveries in this sector place El Jinete Mexican Restaurant at rank #1,990 of 22,851 employers ($54,907 owed). El Jinete Mexican Restaurant carries no OSHA penalty in this extract but ranks #1,990 of 22,851 Accommodation & Food Services employers on WHD back wages ($54,907).
How El Jinete Mexican Restaurant Compares
El Jinete Mexican Restaurant in Cincinnati, OH 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, American Inn and Suites Ionia in Ionia, MI has 0 OSHA inspections on record.
No OSHA penalty has been assessed against El Jinete Mexican Restaurant 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 El Jinete Mexican Restaurant owed $54,907 in back wages to 23 employees across 2 cases and 40 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 El Jinete Mexican Restaurant compares to the Accommodation & Food Services sector, which has 25,016 employers tracked by PlainWorker.
| Metric | El Jinete Mexican Restaurant | 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
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- El Jinete Mexican Restaurant also carries $54,907 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.