Accommodation & Food Services · Indianapolis, IN
The Tamale Place
According to the U.S. Department of Labor (2010–2026), the Wage and Hour Division recovered $39,203 in back wages owed to 35 affected workers across 3 wage-theft cases.
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- Violations cited
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- Back wages owed
The Tamale Place in Indianapolis, IN 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 $39,203 in back wages owed to 35 affected workers. All enforcement data below is sourced from the DOL public enforcement databases at data.dol.gov.
Compliance score
- C Wage & hour compliance: $39K in back wages owed across 3 WHD cases ($13K 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.
The Tamale Place in the Accommodation & Food Services enforcement ledger
On wage-and-hour enforcement alone, The Tamale Place ranks #3,085 among 22,851 Accommodation & Food Services employers with WHD recoveries ($39,203). The Tamale Place carries no OSHA penalty in this extract but ranks #3,085 of 22,851 Accommodation & Food Services employers on WHD back wages ($39,203).
How The Tamale Place Compares
The Tamale Place in Indianapolis, IN 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, Encanto Restaurants, INC. in Mayaguez, PR has 2 OSHA inspections on record.
No OSHA penalty has been assessed against The Tamale Place 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 The Tamale Place owed $39,203 in back wages to 35 employees across 3 cases and 42 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 The Tamale Place compares to the Accommodation & Food Services sector, which has 25,016 employers tracked by PlainWorker.
| Metric | The Tamale Place | 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
Use The Tamale Place's enforcement history as one data point, not the whole picture.
- A single employer's record can look unusual in isolation. Compare The Tamale Place against Encanto Restaurants, INC., a similarly-sized employer in the same sector, before drawing conclusions. Compare side-by-side
- See whether The Tamale Place's inspection and penalty record is typical for Accommodation & Food Services or an outlier against the sector's own average. View the Accommodation & Food Services sector
- The Tamale Place also carries $39,203 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.