A high OSHA inspection count, on its own, doesn't tell you a company is unsafe. Large multi-site employers naturally accumulate more inspections than small single-location businesses. The signal you're looking for is outcomes — how many of those inspections produced citations, how severe the citations were, and whether they're tied to workplace accidents.
That said, the top of the inspection-count leaderboard is worth knowing.
The ranking
- Aep — Mayaguez, PR · 141 inspections, 10 violations, $16,000 in penalties
- U. S. Postal Service — North Bend, OR · 119 inspections, 0 violations
- United Parcel Service, Inc. — Chico, CA · 93 inspections, 5 violations, $62,925 in penalties
- Walmart Inc. — Chico, CA · 88 inspections, 0 violations
- Tesla, Inc. — Lathrop, CA · 78 inspections, 3 violations, $28,000 in penalties
- U.s. Postal Service — Orlando, FL · 75 inspections, 1 violations
- Waco Inc. — Radford, VA · 72 inspections, 0 violations
- U.s. Dept Of Army — Fort Bragg, NC · 69 inspections, 7 violations
- Target Corporation — La Quinta, CA · 68 inspections, 1 violations, $475 in penalties
- Amazon.com Services Llc — Stockton, CA · 67 inspections, 1 violations, $935 in penalties
Why the same names keep appearing
Three categories dominate this list:
- National multi-site employers — postal services, package delivery, large retail, food service. Inspections happen at the facility level, so an employer with thousands of facilities will outpace a single-site company by orders of magnitude.
- Industries that OSHA prioritizes — construction, manufacturing, warehousing. Higher hazard classification means more frequent programmed inspections.
- Establishments with reported accidents — fatalities, hospitalizations, and amputations are required to be reported and almost always trigger an inspection.
If you're researching a specific employer in this list, click through to their page to see whether the inspections cluster around a specific facility, time period, or accident.
Related reading
- The 10 U.S. employers with the largest OSHA penalty totals — same data sliced by dollar amount instead of inspection count.
- Industries with the most OSHA violations — context for why certain sectors generate so much enforcement activity.
- How to research an employer's safety record — a step-by-step guide to reading a company's inspection page.
