About OSHARecord
Is your employer safe to work for?
What we do
OSHARecord publishes injury rates and citation history by employer so workers can see who runs a safe shop before they accept an offer.
We focus on U.S. workplace safety, injuries, and OSHA citations. Every page on osharecord.org is built from OSHA Severe Injury Reports and ITA Form 300A summary data, cited and linkable so readers can trace any number back to its source.
Who runs this
OSHARecord is built and maintained by the OSHARecord Team. We're a small group working on making public U.S. workplace safety, injuries, and OSHA citations data easier for non-specialists to read. If you have a correction, a data tip, or a question about how a number was derived, the contact email below reaches us directly.
Who this is for
OSHARecord is built for workers evaluating an employer, safety researchers, and labor reporters.
Why this exists
Public data on U.S. workplace safety, injuries, and OSHA citations is technically free, but practically locked behind file formats, acronyms, and paywalled dashboards. OSHARecordexists to close that gap: take the raw federal and public-sector data, and turn it into pages a normal person can read in thirty seconds.
How we work
- Primary source only. We pull from OSHA Severe Injury Reports and ITA Form 300A summary data and cite the exact dataset and version on every page.
- No invented numbers. If a figure is not in the underlying public data, it does not appear on osharecord.org. We never generate synthetic statistics to fill gaps.
- Methodology, in plain English. We combine OSHA Enforcement Data (IMIS) — the federal inspection and citation records — with ITA Form 300A injury summaries and Severe Injury Reports. The LakeQuality safety rubric weights violation rate vs industry baseline (40%), serious-and-willful violation ratio (25%), repeat-violation ratio (20%), and penalty per inspection vs average (15%) into a 0-100 composite score and an A-F grade.
- Refreshed on a schedule. Refreshed every four months with each OSHA enforcement-data release. SIR and ITA updates follow their own publication schedules; the federal-OSHA file is updated continuously by the DOL and we re-ingest on a quarterly cadence.
- Corrections welcome. Readers flag issues all the time. When the source fixes a record, OSHARecord follows.
Known limitations
Federal OSHA data does not include state-plan inspections (28 U.S. states operate their own state-OSHA plans), which means the picture for any employer in a state-plan jurisdiction is partial. ITA coverage is limited to establishments meeting OSHA size and industry thresholds. Self-reported injury counts are audited on a sample basis. Penalty figures reflect federal classifications and may differ from state-plan amounts.
Why workplace safety records are worth reading
Workplace injuries are not random. The same job at two different employers in the same industry can carry meaningfully different injury rates depending on management practices, equipment maintenance, training quality, and safety-culture investment. OSHA enforcement data is the closest the U.S. comes to a public-records system for those differences.
Every federal OSHA inspection produces a public record. The record includes the citations issued, their classification (serious, willful, repeat, other-than-serious), the proposed and final penalties, and a narrative description of the specific hazards identified. For workers evaluating prospective employers, this data is the most authoritative public signal available — meaningfully better than employer-provided safety statements or industry-wide averages.
OSHARecord exists to put that data in front of workers in a form they can actually use. The headline grade tells you how an employer compares to its industry baseline. The per-inspection breakdown tells you what specific hazards have been cited and whether they were corrected. The multi-year history tells you whether problems are isolated incidents or chronic patterns. That information is what worker-relevant safety analysis actually looks like.
What this data cannot tell you
Three meaningful gaps to know about. First, state OSHA plans. Twenty-eight U.S. states operate their own OSHA-equivalent programs (Cal/OSHA being the largest), which means federal OSHA inspections cover only part of the country. The federal data captured here is the most complete cross-state source but understates the full enforcement picture in state-plan jurisdictions.
Second, small employers. OSHA inspects roughly 1% of U.S. workplaces in any given year. Small employers (under 10 workers) are inspected far less frequently than large ones, often only after a complaint or serious incident. A clean OSHA record on a small employer often means "uninspected" rather than "verified safe."
Third, the citation lag. From inspection to public record can take 6-24 months as employers contest citations through the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission. The most recent inspections at any employer may not yet appear in our data; the historical record we have is more complete for older inspections than for the past year.
How to read a company page on this site
Each /company/[slug] page has five main blocks. The header shows total inspections, total violations, the LakeQuality safety grade (A-F), and the operating states. The narrative section translates those numbers into plain English, branched on the specific profile of the employer (clean record vs. chronic enforcement, single-state vs. multi-state, construction vs. healthcare vs. retail).
Below the narrative, we surface the violation-severity breakdown (how many serious, willful, repeat, other-than-serious citations), the per-inspection penalty history, and the underlying CMS Hospital Compare-style measure bundle that drives the composite grade. Each individual inspection links to the OSHA narrative description and citation details.
For workers comparing prospective employers, the most useful entry points are the industry-specific pages (e.g., /industry/construction) and the city-and-state filtered views (e.g., /industry/construction/california). Those pages control for the industry and geographic variation that otherwise dominates raw OSHA citation comparisons.
Independence
OSHARecord is an independent publication. We are not funded, owned, or directed by any of the agencies, companies, or organizations that appear in our data. Hosting is paid for by advertising — see our Privacy Policy for details — and we do not take paid placements, sponsored rankings, or "remove-my-entry" fees.
History
OSHARecord launched in 2025 as part of a small portfolio of independent public-data sites. It has been maintained and updated continuously since.
Contact
Tips, corrections, data-partnership questions, and press inquiries: hello@osharecord.com. More options on our contact page.