Transportation & Warehousing · Hickory, NC
Interstate 40 Towing
According to the U.S. Department of Labor (2010–2026), the Wage and Hour Division recovered $5,202 in back wages owed to 13 affected workers across 2 wage-theft cases.
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- Violations cited
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- Back wages owed
Interstate 40 Towing in Hickory, NC 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 $5,202 in back wages owed to 13 affected workers. 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 2 WHD cases ($3K 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.
Interstate 40 Towing in the Transportation & Warehousing enforcement ledger
WHD back-wage recoveries in this sector place Interstate 40 Towing at rank #2,419 of 3,616 employers ($5,202 owed). Interstate 40 Towing carries no OSHA penalty in this extract but ranks #2,419 of 3,616 Transportation & Warehousing employers on WHD back wages ($5,202).
How Interstate 40 Towing Compares
Interstate 40 Towing in Hickory, NC 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, SW Zhang Group Inc. in Walnut, CA has 0 OSHA inspections on record.
No OSHA penalty has been assessed against Interstate 40 Towing to date. The Transportation & Warehousing sector average runs $6,129 per employer.
Wage & Hour Findings
The Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division found that Interstate 40 Towing owed $5,202 in back wages to 13 employees across 2 cases and 18 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: Transportation & Warehousing
How Interstate 40 Towing compares to the Transportation & Warehousing sector, which has 9,914 employers tracked by PlainWorker.
| Metric | Interstate 40 Towing | Industry Avg |
|---|---|---|
| Inspections | 0 | 1.9 |
| Violations | 0 | 3.2 |
| Total Penalty | $0 | $6,129 |
| Avg Penalty per Inspection | $0 | $3,295 |
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What to do with this record
Use Interstate 40 Towing's enforcement history as one data point, not the whole picture.
- A single employer's record can look unusual in isolation. Compare Interstate 40 Towing against SW Zhang Group Inc., a similarly-sized employer in the same sector, before drawing conclusions. Compare side-by-side
- See whether Interstate 40 Towing's inspection and penalty record is typical for Transportation & Warehousing or an outlier against the sector's own average. View the Transportation & Warehousing sector
- Interstate 40 Towing also carries $5,202 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.