WorkRecord — Employer Compliance Intelligence

The Data

Four federal datasets. One employer score.

OSHA and the Department of Labor publish enforcement data across four separate programs. None of them are joined at the employer level. WorkRecord ingests all four, links them by employer identity, and produces a single scored compliance record per employer.

The result: a complete safety, wage compliance, and injury record for every scored employer — refreshed quarterly from federal open data.

OSHA Inspections

Every federal OSHA inspection since 1970 — 5.16M records across all industries and jurisdictions. Includes inspection type, violation findings, fatality flags, and abatement status.

Federal

OSHA Violations

12.77M violation records — citation type (willful, repeat, serious, other), initial and final penalty, abatement date, and open abatement flags. $6.47B in current penalties tracked.

Federal

OSHA Severe Injury Reports

103,750 severe workplace injuries reported to OSHA since January 2015 — amputations, hospitalizations, and loss of an eye. A dataset separate from inspections that captures incidents not always resulting in a formal citation.

Federal

DOL Wage & Hour Division

365,393 WHD investigations covering $4.73B in documented back wages. Includes FLSA violation counts, civil money penalties, child labor flags, and repeat violator designations.

Federal

Intelligence Signals

What the federal record reveals.

Willful Violations

Knowing disregard for worker safety

OSHA's most serious citation — issued when an employer knew a hazard existed and made no effort to eliminate it. Willful violations carry penalties up to $156,259 each and are permanent federal record. WorkRecord weights willful counts 3x serious violations in scoring.

OSHA Violations · 1970–2026

Open Abatement

Violations not yet corrected

OSHA citations require employers to correct the hazard by a set abatement date. Open abatement items — where the deadline has passed without documented correction — represent active, unresolved risk. BP Texas City has carried open abatement items for over 13 years.

OSHA Violations · Abatement Status

Fatality-Linked Inspections

Inspections triggered by worker deaths

OSHA flags inspections opened in response to a workplace fatality. Fatality-linked inspections indicate the most severe safety failures and typically precede the most significant willful citations. WorkRecord applies a hard score cap when fatality flags are present.

OSHA Inspections · Fatality Flag

Severe Injury Rate

Amputations and hospitalizations per employer

27,358 amputations reported to OSHA since 2015 — concentrated in food processing, manufacturing, and construction. WorkRecord benchmarks employer injury counts against NAICS peer groups, flagging employers whose rate exceeds the industry median.

OSHA Severe Injuries · 2015–2025

Back Wages Recovered

Dollar exposure per WHD investigation

The DOL Wage & Hour Division documents back wages owed for every investigation that identifies a violation. Employers with large back wage exposure represent material contingent liability not visible on the balance sheet.

DOL WHD · 365,393 investigations

Repeat Violator Pattern

Same violation, same employer, again

OSHA's repeat citation classification applies when an employer is cited for a substantially similar violation within five years of a prior citation. Repeat citations carry up to 10x the standard penalty and indicate systemic compliance failure rather than isolated incidents.

OSHA Violations · Repeat Classification

Child Labor

Hard override — no score can offset this

WHD child labor violations trigger a hard score floor in WorkRecord regardless of all other components. 13,313 employers carry documented child labor findings. Any employer with a child labor violation cannot score CLEAN — the federal record is permanent and the risk is categorical, not actuarial.

DOL WHD · Child Labor Violations

Industry Benchmark

Violation rate vs. NAICS peer group

OSHA violation rates vary dramatically by industry. A construction company with 5 violations may be below its peer median; a financial services firm with the same count may be a significant outlier. WorkRecord benchmarks each employer against its 4-digit NAICS peer group to produce industry-adjusted risk signals.

OSHA Inspections · NAICS Classification

Cross-Vertical Flag

Same operator — multiple federal agencies

WorkRecord cross-references employer FEINs against WeighStation carrier records and CareIndex facility ownership data. An employer flagged by OSHA, DOL, and CMS simultaneously represents a systemic compliance failure across independent federal enforcement systems — the strongest multi-agency risk signal the platform produces.

WorkRecord × WeighStation × CareIndex · FEIN Cross-Reference

The Score

WorkRecord Score

A 100-point composite employer compliance score. Higher scores indicate lower federal enforcement exposure. Four components, weighted by their materiality to acquirers and lenders. Methodology fully disclosed.

Scores are computed at the employer level from federal enforcement records and assigned a risk tier for screener use.

Clean

Score 80–100. Minimal enforcement history. No open abatement, no willful violations, back wages within industry norm.

Monitored

Score 60–79. One or more elevated signals — repeat citations, above-average back wages, or prior WHD investigation with findings.

Cited

Score 40–59. Active willful violations, open abatement items, or severe injury concentration above NAICS peer median.

Critical

Score 0–39. Multiple willful violations, fatality-linked inspections, open abatement, and/or significant back wage exposure in combination.

WorkRecord Score and risk tiers are AuditPoint derived analytical outputs — not official OSHA or DOL designations. All inputs are sourced from federal enforcement data with vintage disclosed per report. A WorkRecord score reflects an employer’s historical federal enforcement record and is not a statement of current operating status — an entity may be defunct, acquired, or renamed, and many records reflect activity that is several years old.

OSHA Citation Severity

Willful violations, severe injury count, and open abatement items, recency-weighted. Willful violations cap this component at 70. Documented fatalities and high severe-injury counts apply further caps that do not decay with record age.

35%

OSHA Penalty Scale

Total OSHA penalties assessed across all inspections, scored on a banded scale from under $10,000 to over $2 million. Recent penalties apply at full weight; older penalties decay partially toward a clean score.

20%

WHD Wage Violations

Back wages per affected employee, repeat-violator designation, and civil money penalties, recency-weighted. Child labor findings are never discounted for age. Back wages above $1 million cap the component regardless of recency.

25%

Recency Weighting

Time since the most recent OSHA or WHD violation. Employers with no violation history score 100; recent violations score near 20 and recover as the record ages. Violations age but never disappear.

20%

Who Uses It

Built for high-stakes employer decisions.

Acquisitions & M&A

Private Equity & Acquirers

Screening targets for OSHA and WHD exposure before LOI. Labor compliance liabilities don't appear in seller diligence — they appear in the federal enforcement record.

Score acquisition targets before submitting an offer

Identify open abatement items representing contingent remediation cost

Flag repeat violator pattern as indicator of systemic management failure

Credit & Lending

Lenders & Credit Officers

Sizing labor compliance risk in credit underwriting. Active OSHA abatement and WHD investigations represent contingent liabilities not captured on the balance sheet.

Score borrower at origination for federal enforcement exposure

Monitor portfolio companies for score deterioration quarterly

Flag critical-tier employers for covenant review

Legal & Operations

Law Firms & Operators

Research OSHA inspection and violation history for litigation, regulatory defense, or transactional diligence. Benchmark facilities against industry peers before a programmed inspection arrives.

Pull full OSHA citation history for a named employer or facility

Identify locations with above-average inspection complaint rates

Benchmark your portfolio against NAICS peer compliance scores

Sample Findings · July 2026

What 3.3M employers tell us.

Sourced directly from OSHA and DOL federal data. Verifiable. Citable.

OSHA · Petroleum Refining · BP Texas City

463

Willful violations — abatement open 13 years. Fatality link active. WorkRecord: CRITICAL.

OSHA Enforcement Data · 1970–2026

OSHA · Open Abatement · Universe

70,660

Employers with open OSHA abatement orders — hazards cited, penalized, and officially unresolved. 1,594 also carry willful violations on record.

OSHA Enforcement Data · July 2026

OSHA Severe Injuries · Food Processing

27,358

Workplace amputations reported to OSHA since 2015 across 103,750 severe injury reports. All reportable under federal law.

OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

WorkRecord.

Four federal datasets. One employer score.

What the federal record reveals.

WorkRecord Score

Built for high-stakes employer decisions.

What 3.3M employers tell us.

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