Most-recent inspection year · 2024 to 2025
State last-inspection year changes
Year-over-year change in how many employers have their most recent OSHA inspection date in each complete calendar year, across 41 states with at least 50 such employers in 2024. This is a last-inspection-year stock, not the count of inspections opened that year.
- +362
- Largest rise · California
- -347
- Largest decline · Texas
- 41
- States with both years (≥50 in 2024)
2024 to 2025 last-inspection-year change
California leads the rising board at +362 employers (1,127 to 1,489, +32.1%). The #19 cutoff on the rising list is +1; Texas sits at the other end at -347.
- +362
- #1 rise · California
- +1
- #19 cutoff
- -347
- Largest decline · Texas
- 41
- paired states (≥50 in 2024)
Each employer contributes to exactly one calendar year: the year of their most recent inspection on record. A rise means more employers currently end their inspection history in that year; it is not a claim that OSHA opened more inspections there. The in-progress calendar year is excluded from the pair.
Enforcement registry counts only. A higher last-inspection-year stock is not a workplace-safety grade and not advice about where to work.
Largest last-inspection-year increases
Top 12 of 19 on the rising board. Sort key is absolute change in employer counts, 2025 versus 2024.
Largest YoY last-inspection-year increases, 2025
19 steepest increases
| # | State | Δ | YoY | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | California | +362 | +32.1% | 1,127→1,489 |
| 2 | Virginia | +128 | +35.2% | 364→492 |
| 3 | New Jersey | +100 | +23.4% | 427→527 |
| 4 | Michigan | +92 | +12.6% | 728→820 |
| 5 | Tennessee | +76 | +18.8% | 405→481 |
| 6 | Maryland | +71 | +47.3% | 150→221 |
| 7 | Iowa | +41 | +29.7% | 138→179 |
| 8 | Utah | +39 | +30.5% | 128→167 |
| 9 | Maine | +34 | +56.7% | 60→94 |
| 10 | Pennsylvania | +27 | +4.4% | 613→640 |
| 11 | Puerto Rico | +25 | +11.5% | 217→242 |
| 12 | South Dakota | +19 | +36.5% | 52→71 |
| 13 | Hawaii | +15 | +13% | 115→130 |
| 14 | Connecticut | +14 | +10.2% | 137→151 |
| 15 | North Dakota | +7 | +12.5% | 56→63 |
| 16 | Illinois | +7 | +1.4% | 512→519 |
| 17 | Massachusetts | +5 | +2% | 249→254 |
| 18 | Nevada | +2 | +0.5% | 405→407 |
| 19 | Louisiana | +1 | +1.5% | 65→66 |
22 steepest declines
| # | State | Δ | YoY | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Texas | -347 | -39% | 890→543 |
| 2 | Ohio | -77 | -17.5% | 440→363 |
| 3 | New York | -77 | -9.4% | 815→738 |
| 4 | Colorado | -75 | -38.7% | 194→119 |
| 5 | Wisconsin | -69 | -18.5% | 373→304 |
| 6 | Alabama | -59 | -34.3% | 172→113 |
| 7 | Idaho | -48 | -53.9% | 89→41 |
| 8 | Florida | -45 | -9.1% | 493→448 |
| 9 | Washington | -41 | -73.2% | 56→15 |
| 10 | Georgia | -41 | -13.8% | 297→256 |
| 11 | Arkansas | -36 | -64.3% | 56→20 |
| 12 | Nebraska | -35 | -38% | 92→57 |
| 13 | Alaska | -32 | -25.6% | 125→93 |
| 14 | Mississippi | -31 | -44.9% | 69→38 |
| 15 | New Hampshire | -18 | -30.5% | 59→41 |
| 16 | Montana | -17 | -24.3% | 70→53 |
| 17 | Oklahoma | -16 | -15.4% | 104→88 |
| 18 | Missouri | -15 | -8.8% | 171→156 |
| 19 | Kansas | -10 | -6.5% | 154→144 |
| 20 | West Virginia | -4 | -6.5% | 62→58 |
| 21 | Rhode Island | -2 | -2.4% | 82→80 |
| 22 | Indiana | -2 | -1.7% | 117→115 |
Aggregate enforcement totals live on statistics and the state table. This board is a different cut of the employer last_inspection dates.
Every figure on PlainWorker is rendered directly from official U.S. Department of Labor OSHA and Wage & Hour Division enforcement records, no number is typed in by an editor. YoY compares consecutive complete calendar-year counts of employers by substr(last_inspection,1,4). Floor: ≥50 employers in 2024. The current calendar year is excluded from the pair. Rising and falling boards are sign-filtered before LIMIT. Not inspection-event volume. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-09-25.