Healthcare & Social Assistance · Houston, TX
Lovett Dental
According to the U.S. Department of Labor (2010–2026), the Wage and Hour Division recovered $5,114 in back wages owed to 20 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
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- Back wages owed
Lovett Dental in Houston, 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 21 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
- B Wage & hour compliance: $5K in back wages owed across 1 WHD case ($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.
Lovett Dental in the Healthcare & Social Assistance enforcement ledger
On wage-and-hour enforcement alone, Lovett Dental ranks #8,434 among 13,687 Healthcare & Social Assistance employers with WHD recoveries ($5,114). Lovett Dental carries no OSHA penalty in this extract but ranks #8,434 of 13,687 Healthcare & Social Assistance employers on WHD back wages ($5,114).
How Lovett Dental Compares
Lovett Dental in Houston, 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, Virginia Family Medicine in Fairfax, VA has 0 OSHA inspections on record.
No OSHA penalty has been assessed against Lovett Dental 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 Lovett Dental owed $5,114 in back wages to 20 employees across 1 case and 21 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 Lovett Dental compares to the Healthcare & Social Assistance sector, which has 17,945 employers tracked by PlainWorker.
| Metric | Lovett Dental | 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 Lovett Dental's enforcement history as one data point, not the whole picture.
- A single employer's record can look unusual in isolation. Compare Lovett Dental against New Haven - ICF DDH, a similarly-sized employer in the same sector, before drawing conclusions. Compare side-by-side
- See whether Lovett Dental'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
- Lovett Dental also carries $5,114 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
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