Healthcare & Social Assistance · Buffalo, NY
Heritage Centers
According to the U.S. Department of Labor (2010–2026), the Wage and Hour Division recovered $27,106 in back wages owed to 139 affected workers across 5 wage-theft cases.
- $0
- OSHA penalties
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- Violations cited
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- OSHA inspections
- $27,106
- Back wages owed
Heritage Centers in Buffalo, NY 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 $27,106 in back wages owed to 139 affected workers. All enforcement data below is sourced from the DOL public enforcement databases at data.dol.gov.
Compliance score
- B Wage & hour compliance: $27K in back wages owed across 5 WHD cases ($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.
Heritage Centers in the Healthcare & Social Assistance enforcement ledger
WHD back-wage recoveries in this sector place Heritage Centers at rank #3,044 of 13,687 employers ($27,106 owed). Heritage Centers carries no OSHA penalty in this extract but ranks #3,044 of 13,687 Healthcare & Social Assistance employers on WHD back wages ($27,106).
How Heritage Centers Compares
Heritage Centers in Buffalo, NY 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, Kirsten Care AFH in Lynnwood, WA has 0 OSHA inspections on record.
No OSHA penalty has been assessed against Heritage Centers 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 Heritage Centers owed $27,106 in back wages to 139 employees across 5 cases and 139 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 Heritage Centers compares to the Healthcare & Social Assistance sector, which has 17,945 employers tracked by PlainWorker.
| Metric | Heritage Centers | 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 Heritage Centers's enforcement history as one data point, not the whole picture.
- A single employer's record can look unusual in isolation. Compare Heritage Centers against Kirsten Care AFH, a similarly-sized employer in the same sector, before drawing conclusions. Compare side-by-side
- See whether Heritage Centers'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
- Heritage Centers also carries $27,106 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 Sources & Methodology ▼
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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