Updated April 2026 · OSHA enforcement data
Compare Workplace Safety Records
Compare workplace safety records side-by-side using federal OSHA enforcement data. The compare tool below pulls violation counts, severity breakdowns (serious, willful, repeat), penalty totals, and industry-normalized Safety Score grades for any two companies in the OSHARecord database.
How to Read a Company Comparison
Each company's record is broken into four signals. First, the total inspection count — how many times federal or state-plan OSHA has formally entered a worksite belonging to that employer. More inspections is not automatically worse; some industries (construction, manufacturing, warehousing) draw more inspections by design. Second, the violation count, broken into Serious (substantial probability of death or serious injury), Willful (intentional disregard for OSHA standards), Repeat (a similar violation cited within the past five years), and Other-than-Serious. Third, the penalty totals at proposal versus final — initial OSHA-proposed fines often get reduced through informal settlement; the final figure is what the company actually paid. Fourth, the Safety Score grade, which is industry-normalized so two companies in different industries can be compared on a like-for-like basis.
The most useful first lens is usually severity composition rather than headline violation count. A company with 40 violations all in the Other-than-Serious category looks meaningfully different from a company with 15 violations skewed toward Serious and Willful. The Safety Score weights this implicitly — the serious/willful ratio is 25% of the composite — but the side-by-side severity rows in the comparison output make the underlying pattern visible directly.
For workers researching a potential employer, two additional signals matter: repeat-violation ratio (an indicator of whether the company addressed past hazards or just paid the fine and moved on), and penalty-per-inspection compared to industry norms (a quick read on whether OSHA inspectors are treating violations at this company as routine paperwork or as serious systemic findings). Read the U.S. OSHA enforcement program detail at osha.gov; raw inspection records and penalty data files are available at osha.gov/data/erd-data-files.
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How These Comparisons Are Calculated
Every figure shown in the comparison comes directly from OSHA enforcement-data files at osha.gov/data/erd-data-files. Inspection counts, violation severity classifications (Serious, Willful, Repeat, Other-than-Serious), and penalty figures are taken as-is from the underlying federal records. The Safety Score combines violation rate vs industry average (40%), serious/willful ratio (25%), repeat-violation ratio (20%), and penalty per inspection vs industry average (15%) into a single 0-100 grade — read the full methodology for the formula.
Industry-level injury and illness rates used for benchmarking come from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses at bls.gov/iif, also U.S. government public domain. Both data sources are updated regularly; OSHARecord refreshes its dataset on the same cadence.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does OSHARecord calculate the Safety Score?
The Safety Score is a 0-100 composite that combines four signals from federal OSHA enforcement data: a company's violation rate compared to its industry average (40% of the score), the share of serious and willful violations in its history (25%), repeat-violation ratio (20%), and average penalty per inspection compared to industry norms (15%). Scores translate into A-F letter grades, with A reserved for companies that materially outperform their industry on safety. The full methodology is published on the methodology page.
Where does the underlying data come from?
Every violation, inspection, and penalty figure on OSHARecord is sourced from the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration's enforcement-data files at https://www.osha.gov/data/erd-data-files. The data covers federal OSHA inspections plus state-plan OSHA jurisdictions where they share data with federal OSHA. Industry-level injury and illness benchmarks come from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses at https://www.bls.gov/iif/. Both are public-domain U.S. government data sources.
Can two companies in different industries be compared fairly?
Yes — the Safety Score is industry-normalized. Each company is benchmarked against its own industry's violation and penalty averages, so comparing a manufacturer to a hospitality chain still produces a meaningful grade because each is graded against its own peers. The raw violation counts will differ wildly (heavy manufacturing tends to generate more inspections than office work), but the letter grade reflects how each company performs relative to expected risk.
How current is the data?
Data is refreshed each time OSHA publishes a new enforcement-data release at https://www.osha.gov/data/erd-data-files — typically monthly for incremental updates and quarterly for full datasets. The current dataset was last refreshed April 2026. Individual company pages list the latest inspection date so you can verify how recent the underlying records are.
Why is a company missing from this list?
OSHARecord includes companies that have at least one OSHA inspection on record. Small employers, single-establishment businesses, or firms that have not been inspected by federal OSHA or a state-plan OSHA partner will not appear. The site also focuses on the multi-establishment company ranking — single-location records exist in the underlying OSHA data but are not surfaced here unless they roll up into a tracked company.
Compare workplace safety records side-by-side using federal OSHA enforcement data. The compare tool below pulls violation counts, severity breakdowns (serious, willful, repeat), penalty totals, and industry-normalized Safety Score grades for any two companies in the OSHARecord database.