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State enforcement profile · #54 of 56 by penalties · AT/BELOW-US

American Samoa — lower-penalty enforcement profile

According to OSHA enforcement records (2010–2026), American Samoa has 189 employers in the federal enforcement record, with 434 OSHA inspections and $2.9M in penalties assessed. The state's Wage and Hour Division has recovered $2.0M in back wages across 78 enforcement cases.

189
Employers
434
Inspections
$2.9M
OSHA penalties
$2.0M
Back wages

The state in one line

American Samoa ranks #54 of 56 U.S. jurisdictions by total OSHA penalties, with 829 violations cited across 434 inspections and $2.0M in wages recovered for workers.

#54
of 56 states by penalties
1.91
violations per inspection
$15K
avg penalty per employer
78
WHD wage-theft cases

OSHA citation docket

State IMIS book AS · American Samoa AT/BELOW-US · HIGH-PPE

#54/56 · 434 insp · $2.9M

  • BOOK 189 employers
  • INSP 434 inspections
  • RANK #54 of 56
  • PEN $2.9M
  • RATE 1.91 viol/insp
  • VS-US AT/BELOW-US
  • WHD $2.0M
  • PHOTO Northern Mariana Islands

Nearest employer-book peer: Northern Mariana Islands ($1.6M penalty gap)

American Samoa ranks #54 of 56 U.S. jurisdictions by total OSHA penalties, with 829 violations cited across 434 inspections and $2.0M in wages recovered for workers. OSHA IMIS + DOL WHD citation stamps for this jurisdiction. Read with this state → · Worst-cited employer → · Similar-footprint state → · Compare employers →

American Samoa in the OSHA-penalty neighbourhood

Total assessed OSHA penalties among this state and nearest employer-book peers

penalties

What this shows American Samoa carries $2.9M in assessed OSHA penalties, ranked #54 of 56 jurisdictions.

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA enforcement extracts As of 2026

Where American Samoa ranks nationally

Average OSHA penalty per tracked employer, vs all 56 U.S. jurisdictions

$15,448 Top 4% most affordable more affordable than 96% of 56 U.S. jurisdictions

$0–$2,000: 5 U.S. jurisdictions (9%). Below this entry. $2,000–$4,000: 9 U.S. jurisdictions (16%). Below this entry. $4,000–$6,000: 17 U.S. jurisdictions (30%). Below this entry. $6,000–$8,000: 10 U.S. jurisdictions (18%). Below this entry. $8,000–$10,000: 5 U.S. jurisdictions (9%). Below this entry. $10,000–$12,000: 4 U.S. jurisdictions (7%). Below this entry. $12,000–$14,000: 2 U.S. jurisdictions (4%). Below this entry. $14,000–$16,000: 3 U.S. jurisdictions (5%). This entry sits in this band. $16,000–$18,000: 0 U.S. jurisdictions (0%). Above this entry. $18,000–$20,000: 0 U.S. jurisdictions (0%). Above this entry. $20,000–$22,000: 1 U.S. jurisdictions (2%). Above this entry. $22,000–$24,000: 0 U.S. jurisdictions (0%). Above this entry. American Samoa $0 $24,000 every U.S. jurisdiction, bucketed by value

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Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA enforcement extracts · 2026

Do more violations mean harsher penalties?

Each dot is one of the 56 U.S. jurisdictions with both violation and penalty data, placed by total violations cited and the average current penalty per violation. The highlighted dot is American Samoa.

High volume, high penaltyLow volume, high penaltyHigh volume, low penaltyBelow median on both020897.041793.962690.983587.9$26.7$1330.4$2634.1$3937.8$5241.6Total violations citedAverage penalty per violationCalifornia, Total violations cited: 62917 · Average penalty per violation: $1931.91New Jersey, Total violations cited: 51588 · Average penalty per violation: $2257.14Texas, Total violations cited: 37481 · Average penalty per violation: $3006.51Ohio, Total violations cited: 33085 · Average penalty per violation: $3209.32Illinois, Total violations cited: 38576 · Average penalty per violation: $2518.72Pennsylvania, Total violations cited: 34307 · Average penalty per violation: $2124.18New York, Total violations cited: 79647 · Average penalty per violation: $851.4Wisconsin, Total violations cited: 23614 · Average penalty per violation: $2667.32Florida, Total violations cited: 20137 · Average penalty per violation: $2911.21Georgia, Total violations cited: 23607 · Average penalty per violation: $2424.16Virginia, Total violations cited: 29121 · Average penalty per violation: $1651.15Michigan, Total violations cited: 67640 · Average penalty per violation: $671.06Alabama, Total violations cited: 14683 · Average penalty per violation: $2955.54Nevada, Total violations cited: 18844 · Average penalty per violation: $1778.2Missouri, Total violations cited: 12358 · Average penalty per violation: $2481.04Massachusetts, Total violations cited: 12091 · Average penalty per violation: $2401.87Connecticut, Total violations cited: 23647 · Average penalty per violation: $1188.05Kansas, Total violations cited: 9514 · Average penalty per violation: $2852.86Tennessee, Total violations cited: 38865 · Average penalty per violation: $633.23Colorado, Total violations cited: 11833 · Average penalty per violation: $1925.51Iowa, Total violations cited: 10267 · Average penalty per violation: $1892.75Nebraska, Total violations cited: 4514 · Average penalty per violation: $3581.2Oklahoma, Total violations cited: 5020 · Average penalty per violation: $2618.51Maryland, Total violations cited: 24360 · Average penalty per violation: $537.35Hawaii, Total violations cited: 9120 · Average penalty per violation: $1397.7Washington, Total violations cited: 28812 · Average penalty per violation: $424.16Alaska, Total violations cited: 11441 · Average penalty per violation: $1050.89Mississippi, Total violations cited: 4912 · Average penalty per violation: $2280.7North Carolina, Total violations cited: 18017 · Average penalty per violation: $593.13Arkansas, Total violations cited: 3343 · Average penalty per violation: $3153.71Maine, Total violations cited: 8054 · Average penalty per violation: $1235.73Puerto Rico, Total violations cited: 11369 · Average penalty per violation: $851.43Delaware, Total violations cited: 1884 · Average penalty per violation: $5004.52Louisiana, Total violations cited: 3408 · Average penalty per violation: $2525.26North Dakota, Total violations cited: 1761 · Average penalty per violation: $4787.03New Hampshire, Total violations cited: 3281 · Average penalty per violation: $2336.7Idaho, Total violations cited: 3829 · Average penalty per violation: $1867.02West Virginia, Total violations cited: 3289 · Average penalty per violation: $2142.24Utah, Total violations cited: 6414 · Average penalty per violation: $1044.66Rhode Island, Total violations cited: 3528 · Average penalty per violation: $1806.54Indiana, Total violations cited: 4225 · Average penalty per violation: $1430.22South Dakota, Total violations cited: 1901 · Average penalty per violation: $3123.16Oregon, Total violations cited: 21930 · Average penalty per violation: $263.72Kentucky, Total violations cited: 3171 · Average penalty per violation: $1801.2Montana, Total violations cited: 2718 · Average penalty per violation: $2076Minnesota, Total violations cited: 9173 · Average penalty per violation: $604.31New Mexico, Total violations cited: 2690 · Average penalty per violation: $1987.11Wyoming, Total violations cited: 2936 · Average penalty per violation: $1582.38Guam, Total violations cited: 3356 · Average penalty per violation: $1368.12Vermont, Total violations cited: 3044 · Average penalty per violation: $1498.54Arizona, Total violations cited: 8689 · Average penalty per violation: $523.14District of Columbia, Total violations cited: 2002 · Average penalty per violation: $1600.22South Carolina, Total violations cited: 5382 · Average penalty per violation: $551.38American Samoa, Total violations cited: 829 · Average penalty per violation: $3521.93Virgin Islands, Total violations cited: 2592 · Average penalty per violation: $737.45Northern Mariana Islands, Total violations cited: 943 · Average penalty per violation: $1423.52
American Samoa cites 829 total violations at an average current penalty of $3521.93 per violation. The crosshair marks the median jurisdiction on both axes. Across this dataset, citing more violations is mildly ASSOCIATED WITH A LOWER average penalty per violation, not a higher one -- the opposite of what volume alone might suggest.

Top OSHA & wage enforcement actions in American Samoa

Ranked by combined OSHA penalties and DOL Wage & Hour Division back wages. Some employers below have wage-theft cases with zero OSHA safety violations, or vice versa; check the Inspections/Violations columns before drawing safety conclusions.

#EmployerInspectionsViolationsPenalty + wages
1Paramount Builders, LTD.Pago Pago1744$1.3M
2Nana's Construction, INC.Pago Pago1329$280K
3ASG Dept of Public Safety - CorrectionsPago Pago00$256K
4ASG - Department of Public SafetyPago Pago00$235K
5Paramount Builders, LimitedPago Pago1919$228K
6American Samoa GovernmentPago Pago00$173K
7Manua's StorePago Pago00$120K
8Paramount Builders, INC.Pago Pago414$112K
9American Samoa Power AuthorityPago Pago00$111K
10Starkist Samoa CO.Pago Pago48$98K
11K.S. MartPago Pago25$88K
12BlueskyPago Pago00$80K
13American Samoa - ASTCAPago Pago00$63K
14ASG Department of Public SafetyPago Pago00$62K
15Purse Seine Samoa, INC.Pago Pago69$51K
16Toa Bar and GrillPago Pago00$51K
17ASG Dept. of Legal AffairsPago Pago00$46K
18Triple T Services INC.Pago Pago1012$44K
19O & OPago Pago00$42K
20O & O INC.Pago Pago23$41K

All employers in American Samoa

EmployerCityInspectionsPenalty
T & T Recycle & SalvagePago Pago0$0
AS Dept. of HealthPago Pago0$0
Paramount Builder's INC.Pago Pago6$15K
Fletcher Construction Company LTDPago Pago2$15K
Tautua MO Oe, INC.Pago Pago5$14K
Global Pacific ServicesPago Pago4$10K
Industrial Gases INC.Pago Pago2$13K
FTK CorporationPago Pago5$13K
Aveina Brothers INCPago Pago6$12K
PJ CorporationPago Pago2$12K
McDonaldsPago Pago1$3K
TM StorePago Pago0$0
B & J Construction CO.Pago Pago4$12K
Blue Angel CorporationPago Pago2$11K
Tutuila StoresPago Pago0$0
ASG-Department of Public Safety (Flooding)Pago Pago0$0
Hollister General Services, Inc.Pago Pago0$0
Pacific Sales and MarketingPago Pago0$0
Tafuna SM Mart INC.Pago Pago4$10K
Talofa, Inc. dba Auto Nation, dba Talofa VidePago Pago0$0
South Sea Financial CorporationPago Pago0$0
GHC Reid & CompanyPago Pago2$10K
TMP Masonry ConstructionPago Pago6$10K
ApecsPago Pago6$10K
RM ConstructionPago Pago6$9K
Pago Pago Trading CompanyPago Pago3$9K
American Samoa Government Dept. of CommercePago Pago0$0
Pago Pago PurePago Pago2$9K
John Fiu and Catherine SaeluaPago Pago0$0
American IndustriesPago Pago2$9K
Pacific Independent Distributors, INC.Pago Pago2$9K
TSM MartPago Pago0$0
Tutuila StorePago Pago5$9K
Shan-J NuuuliPago Pago0$0
ASG Dept of Homeland SecurityPago Pago0$0
Origin Energy American Samoa, INC.Pago Pago3$8K
Kristopher IIPago Pago0$0
Vailu'u & Sons ConstructionPago Pago2$7K
J - Len T'SPago Pago2$7K
Department of HealthPago Pago0$0
Panamex Pacific INC.Pago Pago3$7K
StarkistPago Pago4$7K
US Postal ServicePago Pago2$7K
Fletcher Construction, South PacificPago Pago5$7K
McConnell DowellPago Pago5$7K
CBT - Ho Ching INC.Pago Pago2$7K
O.O. EnterprisesPago Pago2$6K
F.J.& P.Kruse,INC.Pago Pago2$6K
Hawaiian AirPago Pago2$6K
Shan-J MalaeimePago Pago0$0
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Industries in American Samoa

Enforcement and wage-compliance data broken out by industry sector within American Samoa.

Accommodation & Food ServicesConstructionManufacturingOtherOther ServicesPublic AdministrationRetail TradeTransportation & WarehousingUtilitiesWholesale Trade

Top Cities in American Samoa

The 1 cities with the most employers in the federal enforcement record within American Samoa.

Pago Pago (189)

Nationwide states with similar OSHA penalties or violation rates

Two enforcement-record peer sets for American Samoa: nearest jurisdictions by total assessed OSHA penalties and by violations per inspection. These are cross-state neighborhoods, not the employer-book peers above.

Similar total OSHA penalties

Lower-penalty jurisdictions nationwide with similar inspection-weighted violation rates to American Samoa.

South Carolina $3.0M District of Columbia $3.2M Arizona $4.5M Vermont $4.6M

Similar violations per inspection

States with lower inspection-weighted violation rates near American Samoa's 1.91 per inspection.

West Virginia 1.96/insp Idaho 1.85/insp Virginia 1.99/insp Oregon 1.83/insp

Source: OSHA Enforcement Data, U.S. Department of Labor · Verify with OSHA establishment search →
Source: Wage & Hour Division Compliance Actions, U.S. Department of Labor · DOL WHD data →