OSHA Inspections & Citations Feed: Workplace Safety Violations and Penalties API

Get a clean, daily feed of new OSHA workplace-safety inspections and citations at US companies and job sites: who was inspected, where, in what industry, why (fatality, accident, complaint, referral, planned...), how many serious / willful / repeat violations were cited, which OSHA standards were broken (in plain English), and the penalties, with a direct link to the official OSHA inspection page. Export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or schedule it in new since last run mode as an OSHA alert feed.

Data comes straight from the U.S. Department of Labor's official OSHA enforcement data (the inspection and violation tables DOL publishes daily at data.dol.gov), the same data behind OSHA's Establishment Search. No login, no API key, no scraping of osha.gov.

Why this one: most OSHA tools are company lookups (you must already know who to ask about) or need a DOL API key. This Actor is time-based and nationwide: it tells you which employers were just cited or just inspected across the whole country, newest first, with every citation rolled up into one flat record. A default run takes about 10 seconds.

Who it is for

• Safety consultants, trainers and EHS software vendors: prospect employers that were just cited for fall protection, trenching, lockout/tagout, silica or forklift violations, the week the data appears. Filter by state and industry.
• Insurance carriers, brokers and underwriters (workers' comp, GL): loss-control and underwriting signals by employer, NAICS and state; fatality and catastrophe inspections.
• Workplace-safety and employment lawyers: new willful and repeat citations and large penalties (contest deadlines are short).
• Staffing agencies, GCs and procurement / supplier-risk teams: vet subcontractors and suppliers before you hire them.
• ESG and investment analysts: workplace-safety controversies at portfolio companies.
• Journalists, unions, NGOs and researchers: weekly digests of the largest OSHA penalties and fatality investigations.
• Developers: normalized OSHA data through the Apify API, webhooks and integrations (Slack, Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, n8n).

What you get for each inspection

• Event: eventType = cited (citations issued in the window) or opened (inspection opened in the window), and eventDate.
• Who / where: establishment (employer) name, site address, city, state, ZIP, NAICS code with sector and industry names, SIC code, owner type (private / local / state / federal government), employees at the site, union status.
• Inspection: OSHA activity number, type (fatality/catastrophe, accident, complaint, referral, planned, follow-up...), scope, safety vs. health, federal OSHA vs. state plan, open date, closing conference and case close dates, case status.
• Violations and money: total violations; serious, willful, repeat and other counts; initial and current penalties; failure-to-abate penalties; employees exposed; first/latest citation date; contested flag; final order date.
• What was wrong: OSHA standards cited (e.g. 1926.501) and plain-English hazard topics (e.g. Fall protection, Excavations (protective systems / trenching), Lockout/tagout), plus up to 25 citation lines per inspection (standard as 29 CFR 1926.501(b)(13), type, penalty, abatement date, gravity).
• Links and freshness: oshaUrl (official OSHA inspection detail page), dataAsOf (DOL file date), firstSeenAt.
• New since last run mode with saved history per State key: an inspection is delivered once when it is opened and again when it is cited.
• Privacy by design: entity-level data only. Establishment names that look like a private individual's name (sole proprietors) are withheld ([individual - name withheld]); no inspector names, no complainant or victim data, no phone numbers.

Quick start

1. Click Start with the default input. You get 40 records: the 20 most recently cited inspections (with violations and penalties) and the 20 most recently opened inspections nationwide, from the last 60 days.
2. Narrow it down: states, naicsPrefixes (e.g. 23 construction), inspectionTypes, companyKeyword, minPenalty, seriousOrWillfulOnly. Raise maxItems (up to 50,000) and daysBack (up to 365) for bigger pulls.
3. Weekly OSHA alerts (schedule tip): create an Apify Schedule (e.g. every Monday 7:00) with:

{ "mode": "sinceLastRun", "stateKey": "co-construction", "states": ["CO"], "naicsPrefixes": ["23"], "daysBack": 90, "maxItems": 500 }

Each run delivers only inspections (or new citations of an inspection) not delivered before for that stateKey. Connect Slack, e-mail, Google Sheets or a webhook. Use one stateKey per schedule. Keep daysBack at 60-90 because DOL's public citation table lags several weeks behind the inspection table; the saved history makes sure you never get the same event twice. DOL refreshes the files daily, so a daily or weekly schedule is enough.

More examples:

• Big penalties nationwide this quarter: { "events": ["cited"], "minPenalty": 50000, "daysBack": 90, "maxItems": 500 }
• Fatality / catastrophe inspections just opened in Texas: { "events": ["opened"], "states": ["TX"], "inspectionTypes": ["fatality-catastrophe"], "daysBack": 30 }
• Willful / repeat citations in warehousing (NAICS 493) and trucking (484): { "events": ["cited"], "naicsPrefixes": ["493", "484"], "seriousOrWillfulOnly": true, "daysBack": 180 }
• Everything for one company: { "companyKeyword": "Amazon", "daysBack": 365, "maxItems": 1000 }
• Lean export without citation lines: { "daysBack": 365, "maxItems": 20000, "includeCitations": false }

Input

Field	Default	Meaning
events	cited, opened	cited = citations issued in the window; opened = inspections opened in the window. With both, up to half of maxItems go to citations
states	all	site state codes, e.g. TX, CA, PR
naicsPrefixes	all	NAICS prefixes, e.g. 23, 238, 311, 493, 622
inspectionTypes	all	fatality-catastrophe, accident, complaint, referral, planned, follow-up, ...
companyKeyword	none	establishment name contains this text
minPenalty	0	minimum total current or initial penalty in USD (cited only)
seriousOrWillfulOnly	false	at least one serious, willful or repeat violation (cited only)
daysBack	60	events in the last N days (1-365)
maxItems	40	cap per run (also caps spend); newest first, bigger penalties first on the same day
includeCitations	true	add up to 25 citation lines per inspection
mode	window	window = everything in the window; sinceLastRun = only new (use for schedules)
stateKey	default	saved history name for sinceLastRun

Output example (real record, Oct 2026; shortened)

{
  "eventType": "cited",
  "eventDate": "2026-09-25",
  "activityNr": "348914755",
  "establishmentName": "VC EQUIPMENT, CORP.",
  "siteCity": "CAGUAS",
  "siteState": "PR",
  "siteZip": "00725",
  "naicsCode": "238910",
  "naicsSector": "Construction",
  "industry": "Specialty Trade Contractors",
  "inspectionType": "fatality-catastrophe",
  "inspectionTypeLabel": "Fatality / catastrophe",
  "jurisdiction": "state-plan",
  "employeesAtSite": 50,
  "openDate": "2026-04-27",
  "caseStatus": "closed",
  "violationsTotal": 4,
  "seriousViolations": 1,
  "willfulViolations": 2,
  "initialPenalty": 246105,
  "currentPenalty": 98442,
  "standardsCited": ["1926.651", "1926.21", "1926.652", "1926.20"],
  "hazardTopics": ["Excavations (specific requirements)", "Safety training and education", "Excavations (protective systems / trenching)", "General safety and health provisions"],
  "citations": [
    { "citationId": "02001", "standard": "29 CFR 1926.21(b)(2)", "topic": "Safety training and education", "violationType": "willful", "issuanceDate": "2026-09-25", "abateDate": "2026-10-21", "initialPenalty": 115860, "currentPenalty": 46344 }
  ],
  "dataAsOf": "2026-10-29",
  "oshaUrl": "https://www.osha.gov/ords/imis/establishment.inspection_detail?id=348914755"
}

Full examples: sample-output.json. Every run also writes a summary (window, filters, candidate counts, dataAsOf, latestCitationDateInData) to the OUTPUT record. The dataset has an OSHA inspections table view.

Glossary

Serious = substantial probability of death or serious harm. Willful = knowing disregard or plain indifference. Repeat = same or similar violation cited within 5 years. Initial vs. current penalty = proposed penalty vs. after informal settlement / contest. State plan = inspections by a state OSHA program (e.g. Cal/OSHA, MIOSHA) rather than federal OSHA. Activity number = OSHA's inspection ID.

Data source, update timing and fair use

• U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA enforcement data: the inspection and violation tables published as daily bulk files at data.dol.gov (public domain U.S. Government data, free, no API key). The Actor reads only the recent parts of these multi-GB files with HTTP range requests (about 80 MB per run), with a declared User-Agent, modest concurrency and retries.
• DOL refreshes the files daily. Inspections usually appear within days of opening; citations reach the public violation table several weeks after issuance (the run summary shows latestCitationDateInData). Open cases can still change (penalties are often reduced in settlements; see currentPenalty and finalOrderDate).
• Not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. Department of Labor or OSHA. A citation is an allegation until it becomes a final order. Confirm critical decisions against the official inspection page (oshaUrl).
• Related feeds from moment-data: Federal Contract Awards Feed, US Product Recalls Feed, Building Permits Feed, SEC EDGAR Filings Feed.

Pricing

Pay per event: a small fee per run plus a fee per inspection record delivered. maxItems caps your spend, and runs stop cleanly at your maximum charge limit. See the Pricing tab.

FAQ

How fresh is it? As fresh as DOL's daily files (dataAsOf). New inspections show up within days; citations lag several weeks, so use daysBack 60+ with sinceLastRun and you will catch them as they land. Why do "opened" records have no violations? OSHA has up to 6 months to issue citations after an inspection. Recently opened inspections are an early signal; the same inspection is delivered again as cited once citations are published (in sinceLastRun mode). Why is a name shown as [individual - name withheld]? Some sole proprietors are inspected under their personal name; we withhold those for privacy. The activityNr and oshaUrl still identify the inspection. Can I get older history? Up to 365 days per run with daysBack.