Updated April 2026 · OSHA Enforcement Data
Grade A (Excellent)
Companies with excellent workplace safety records. These employers have significantly fewer violations than their industry average, minimal serious or willful citations, and low penalty amounts.
OSHARecord assigns a A grade to 1 companies (0.0% of the 14,681 employers tracked), based on the four-factor Workplace Safety Score that benchmarks each employer against its industry peers.
Grade A employers on the LakeQuality safety rubric have minimal documented OSHA enforcement history. 1 employers carry this grade — combinations of low violation rates relative to industry, low serious/willful ratios, no repeat citations, and below-average per-inspection penalty levels.
The LakeQuality safety rubric weights four factors: violation rate vs industry baseline (40%), serious/willful violation ratio (25%), repeat-violation ratio (20%), and penalty-per-inspection vs average (15%). Industry adjustment matters because raw violation counts vary 10x or more between sectors — construction or manufacturing employers will inevitably look worse on raw counts than service-sector employers. For workers evaluating prospective employers, the grade is a useful triage signal — but the per-company page gives the underlying citation history that actually matters for an individual decision. Old citations from a different management team are less informative than recent patterns.
1 Companies with Grade A
What the A Grade Means
An A grade is the rarest tier in OSHARecord's scoring model. The four scoring factors — violation rate versus industry (40%), share of serious-or-willful citations (25%), repeat-citation ratio (20%), and average penalty per inspection (15%) — all need to land in the favorable range simultaneously. Achieving that pattern requires a mature safety program with effective hazard controls, documented training, and no lingering systemic issues. A-grade companies are most common in lower-hazard sectors (professional services, finance, information) but appear across every industry where employers invest in safety infrastructure.
Only 1 companies — 0.0% of the 14,681 employers in the dataset — have earned an A. The scarcity reflects how demanding the four scoring factors are when applied simultaneously.
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) publishes the controlling standards, and the Enforcement Results Data files are the primary public source for the underlying citation history that feeds the grade.
How OSHARecord Calculates the Grade
The Workplace Safety Score is a 0-100 composite weighted across four factors: violation rate versus the industry average (40%), share of citations classified as serious or willful (25%), repeat-citation ratio (20%), and average penalty per inspection versus the industry baseline (15%). Each factor is normalized so that companies in inherently risky sectors (construction, manufacturing, warehousing, healthcare) are compared against their actual peers rather than against low-hazard office work.
Letter grades are assigned by score band: A for the highest tier, B for above-average, C for industry-average, D for below-average, and F for the worst-performing tier. Read the full methodology for the exact formula, score bands, and edge cases.
What Grade A Means for Workers
For workers, an A grade means baseline OSHA expectations are likely being met: training programs exist, PPE is provided, and serious hazards are identified and abated. None of that guarantees a specific job site is safe, but it shifts the prior. Anyone offered a role should still ask about the hazard-specific programs that drive most OSHA citations — fall protection, machine guarding, lockout/tagout, hazard communication, and respiratory protection — and whether they have access to the company's written safety plans.
Workers retain the full set of federal protections regardless of their employer's safety grade. They can file confidential complaints at osha.gov/workers/file-complaint, request an inspection, and refuse imminent-danger work without retaliation under Section 11(c) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act. The OSHA Workers' Rights page spells out the full set of protections, and industry-level injury benchmarks come from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses.
Methodology and Data Sources
Counts on this page come from OSHA's public Integrated Management Information System (IMIS) enforcement file, refreshed from the Department of Labor's Enforcement Results Data files. We aggregate citations at the establishment level using the federal employer identifier, then roll those records up to the parent company. Industry classification follows the NAICS code recorded by OSHA at the time of inspection.
The Workplace Safety Score is intentionally a proprietary composite — there is no official OSHA letter grade. The four factors and their weights are designed to reward companies with low citation density relative to industry peers and to penalize patterns of severity rather than isolated incidents. Read the full methodology for the exact formula and edge cases.
OSHARecord assigns a A grade to 1 companies (0.0% of the 14,681 employers tracked), based on the four-factor Workplace Safety Score that benchmarks each employer against its industry peers.