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Multi-Agency Federal Enforcement: U.S. Companies Cited by 2+ Federal Agencies What separates a company that had a one-off OSHA citation from one with systemic compliance problems? Cross-agency violations. When the same company shows up in OSHA's inspection database AND the Wage & Hour Division's enforcement records AND EPA's environmental actions, that's a pattern worth flagging. This dataset surfaces every U.S. employer with enforcement records from two or more federal regulators, cross-referenced via FastDOL's deterministic entity resolution.
Licensing
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.htmlRestrictions/Special Constraints
None
Forbidden Usage
Users should not attempt to identify individual workers involved in enforcement actions using this data
Ethical Review
This dataset does not involve human subjects research. It is derived entirely from publicly available U.S. federal enforcement records — OSHA, WHD, MSHA, EPA ECHO, NLRB, FMCSA, SAM.gov, CMS, CPSC, NHTSA, and the SEC — published by the originating agencies in the public domain under their own disclosure mandates. Records concern legal entities (employers, corporations, establishments) rather than identifiable private individuals; no personally identifying information was collected, inferred, or augmented. Aggregation across agencies surfaces only what each agency has already chosen to disclose publicly. As a derivative of public-domain government data about legal entities, the dataset does not require IRB or ethics-board review, and no informed-consent procedure was applicable.
Intended Use
Contractor pre-qualification and safety screening. Insurance underwriting and risk assessment. Investigative journalism on workplace enforcement patterns. Academic research on regulatory effectiveness across federal agencies. ESG and compliance due diligence. Policy analysis on multi-agency enforcement overlap. Identifying employers with systemic compliance problems versus one-off citations. Enriching existing B2B company databases with federal enforcement signals.
Each row represents a single U.S. employer with multi-agency enforcement history. Fields include:
Identity: employer name, city, state, zip, NAICS industry, parent company (where known) OSHA: inspection count, violation count, total penalties (USD), fatality investigations, willful/repeat/serious counts WHD (Wage & Hour Division): case count, back wages owed (USD), employees violated MSHA: mine safety violations, assessed penalties EPA ECHO: environmental compliance status, formal enforcement actions, total penalties NLRB: unfair labor practice cases, representation cases SAM.gov: federal debarment status, exclusion type, excluding agency OFCCP: federal contractor evaluations, violations found Cross-agency rollups: total penalties across all agencies, agencies-with-activity count (the "multi-agency score"), location count for chains Why this dataset is unique Most public enforcement data is siloed by agency. Searching for a company in OSHA's database tells you nothing about its EPA history. This dataset is the result of resolving 2.1M+ employer records across 7 federal agencies into a single canonical entity per company-location, then filtering to the ~50,000 with multi-agency enforcement.
Built from public federal enforcement data and aggregated by FastDOL.com, where the same data powers searchable per-employer profiles.
Use cases Investigative journalism — identify systemic bad actors with rap sheets across multiple agencies ESG / supply-chain due diligence — screen vendors for cross-agency compliance risk Labor economics research — which industries have the most multi-agency violators? Plaintiffs' attorneys — identify defendants with patterns of federal violations Policy analysis — measure regulatory enforcement overlap across agencies Data science projects — clustering, geographic visualization, parent-company rollups Data sources All data comes from public federal enforcement records, accessed via official agency APIs and bulk downloads:
OSHA inspections, citations, accidents — DOL OIS API WHD enforcement cases — DOL public data API MSHA mine safety — MSHA bulk downloads EPA ECHO Exporter — EPA bulk file NLRB cases — labordata.gov SAM.gov exclusions — OpenSanctions mirror OFCCP compliance evaluations — DOL public data
Entity resolution is deterministic, not fuzzy — employer names are normalized and hashed with state and ZIP into stable UUIDs. This means some true matches are missed (name variations across agencies) but false positives are minimized, which matters at 2.3M profiles. Parent-company rollup uses SEC EDGAR Exhibit 21 subsidiary disclosures supplemented by manual overrides for major corporate families. Approximately 22 states run OSHA-approved state plans with independent inspection programs; records from those states may be underrepresented in the federal data. Penalty amounts reflect post-settlement assessments, not confirmed collections. Source agencies update on nightly and weekly cycles. The dataset is refreshed quarterly. Canonical documentation including full schema, methodology, and BibTeX citation: https://www.fastdol.com/datasets/cross-agency-federal-violations
