Our database currently tracks 426,760 U.S. employers with at least one OSHA inspection on record in the past five years. Across those employers we count 575,985 inspections, 24,000 violations, and $62,581,468 in proposed penalties. Here's what that data looks like as of June 2026.
The headline numbers
| Metric | Total | | --- | --- | | Employers on file | 426,760 | | OSHA inspections | 575,985 | | Violations cited | 24,000 | | Proposed penalties | $62,581,468 |
That works out to about 1.35 inspections per employer — the long tail is a single, brief site visit, but a small number of large operations show up dozens of times.
States doing the most OSHA enforcement
State-plan OSHA programs (states that run their own OSHA-equivalent agency) consistently dominate inspection counts because they cover a wider scope than federal OSHA. The top ten states by total inspections:
- California — 60,638 inspections
- Washington — 42,844 inspections
- Texas — 31,741 inspections
- Michigan — 31,118 inspections
- New York — 27,458 inspections
- Oregon — 24,800 inspections
- Illinois — 21,671 inspections
- Florida — 21,001 inspections
- Pennsylvania — 19,951 inspections
- North Carolina — 19,803 inspections
If you're researching a company's safety record, the state where they operate matters: a single inspection in California means something very different than a single inspection in a state with one-tenth the enforcement volume.
What gets cited
The most-cited violations in our database concentrate in specialty trade contractors — roofing, framing, electrical, drywall — which is consistent with the well-documented overrepresentation of construction in OSHA enforcement statistics. We break the industry data down in Industries with the most OSHA violations on record.
How to use this data
If you're hiring a contractor, evaluating an employer, or researching a workplace incident, our employer search lets you pull a specific company's full inspection record. For broader patterns, state pages aggregate enforcement by location, and the industries directory groups employers by NAICS code so you can compare safety records within an industry.
All numbers above reflect the U.S. Department of Labor's OSHA Enforcement dataset as of June 2026 and update daily.
