Datasets · v2026.05

Public Company Federal Compliance

Name: Public Company Federal Compliance
Creator: FastDOL
Published: 2026-04-15
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

U.S. workplace enforcement records joined to SEC parent-company financials for 42,302 establishments operated by 714 publicly traded companies — OSHA, WHD, NLRB, and EPA activity rolled up to the registrant entity with revenue, net income, and total assets attached.

Published Apr 2026 · Refreshed May 2026 · Covers 2005–present · 42,302 establishments · CC-BY-4.0

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Also available on: Hugging Face · Kaggle · Zenodo

Methodology

Overview

This dataset joins federal workplace enforcement records with SEC parent-company financial data at the establishment level. The unit of observation is one operating establishment with its parent's most-recent financial facts attached. 42,302 establishments across 714 publicly traded parents are covered. 970 unique parent legal-name variants resolve to those 714 unique SEC CIKs — some parents operate under multiple legal names that share a single SEC filer.

The joining is the point. OSHA inspection records, WHD wage cases, NLRB labor relations filings, and EPA environmental compliance are each available separately. SEC parent financials are available separately. Joining them at the establishment level with parent-company rollup applied surfaces patterns that single-source searches miss.

Data sources

OSHA — Federal OSHA Inspection and Violation Records (IMIS).
WHD — Wage and Hour Division Compliance Action Database (WHISARD).
EPA — Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) facility-level enforcement and Quarterly Non-Compliance Reports.
NLRB — National Labor Relations Board case filings.
SAM.gov — System for Award Management federal exclusions list.
SEC EDGAR — Public-company submissions index, used to enumerate registrants and their primary identifiers (CIK, ticker), and to source the most-recent reported revenue, net income, and total assets per registrant.

All sources are public records and are refreshed at FastDOL on a monthly cadence.

Methodology

Federal enforcement data is aggregated from the agency sources above. Entity resolution uses normalized employer name, state, and ZIP to assign each establishment a stable cluster identity within the FastDOL pipeline. Parent-company rollup uses a curated seed table augmented with SEC CIK matches; resolved parents are then joined to the SEC company-facts feed for their most-recent reported revenue, net income, and total assets.

The parent_facts_as_of column carries the period-end date of those financial facts so downstream users can scope analysis appropriately when combining with quarter- or year-specific external data.

Known limitations

Counts reflect what federal agencies investigated and recorded. Reporting practices vary by operator and industry, and small establishments are more likely to be undercounted than large ones.
Entity resolution is high-confidence but imperfect, especially for generic LLC names and DBAs. False positives (an establishment attributed to the wrong parent) and false negatives (an establishment unattributed) both occur.
OSHA columns reflect federal-OSHA inspections only. State-plan state enforcement (about half of all U.S. states) is reported separately and is not joined here.
"0" in any enforcement column means no record at the matched cluster identity for that agency, not an affirmation of perfect compliance.
The parent_*_latest financial fields reflect the registrant's most recently reported annual figures, which may pre-date the enforcement activity in the same row by several years for slow-filing entities.
Companies that have de-listed or merged are reflected at their most recent filing state; historical enforcement that pre-dates a merger remains attributed to the disclosed entity.

Use cases

ESG and stewardship research at the parent-company level — surfacing workplace and environmental enforcement that's distributed across many operating establishments.
Financial research correlating compliance footprint with parent revenue, net income, or total assets.
Workers' comp and casualty underwriting for public-company exposures.
ML feature engineering using risk scores, parent financials, and cross-agency activity counts.
Investigative journalism on the relationship between publicly disclosed corporate structures and on-the-ground compliance records.
Academic study of corporate-structure complexity and its relationship to enforcement visibility.

Schema

38 columns. Types as serialized in the Parquet file.

Column	Type	Description
employer_name	string	Legal name of the establishment as recorded by federal agencies.
city	string	City of the establishment.
state	string	USPS two-letter state code (includes territories).
zip	number	ZIP code of the establishment, stored as float64; nulls preserved.
naics_code	number	NAICS industry classification code, stored as float64; nulls preserved.
naics_description	string	Human-readable NAICS industry description.
parent_name	string	Resolved publicly traded parent company (FastDOL parent rollup).
parent_cik	number	SEC Central Index Key of the resolved parent (numeric form).
parent_ticker	string	Primary trading ticker of the resolved parent, where one is listed.
osha_inspections	integer	Total federal OSHA inspections at this establishment.
osha_violations	integer	Total federal OSHA violations cited at this establishment.
osha_total_penalties	number	Total OSHA penalties assessed at this establishment, in U.S. dollars.
osha_fatalities	integer	OSHA-investigated workplace fatalities recorded at this establishment.
osha_hospitalizations	integer	OSHA-recorded hospitalizations at this establishment.
osha_insp_accident	integer	OSHA inspections triggered by an accident.
osha_insp_complaint	integer	OSHA inspections triggered by a worker complaint.
osha_insp_referral	integer	OSHA inspections triggered by a referral from another agency or party.
osha_severe_violator_program	string	OSHA Severe Violator Enforcement Program flag, stored as 't'/'f'.
whd_cases	integer	Wage and Hour Division enforcement cases on record at this establishment.
whd_backwages_total	number	Total WHD-assessed back-wages at this establishment, in U.S. dollars.
whd_employees_affected	integer	Total employees recorded as affected across this establishment's WHD cases.
nlrb_cases	integer	Total NLRB case filings at this establishment.
nlrb_ulp_cases	integer	NLRB unfair labor practice cases at this establishment.
nlrb_representation_cases	integer	NLRB representation cases at this establishment.
epa_inspection_count	integer	EPA inspections recorded at this establishment.
epa_formal_action_count	integer	EPA formal enforcement actions recorded at this establishment.
epa_qtrs_noncompliance	integer	Number of quarters in EPA non-compliance status (ECHO QNCR).
epa_total_penalties	number	EPA-assessed penalties at this establishment, in U.S. dollars.
epa_compliance_status	string	EPA compliance status label (six-class enumeration from ECHO).
parent_revenue_latest	number	Parent company most recent reported annual revenue, in U.S. dollars.
parent_net_income_latest	number	Parent company most recent reported annual net income, in U.S. dollars.
parent_total_assets_latest	number	Parent company most recent reported total assets, in U.S. dollars.
parent_facts_as_of	date	Period-end date for the parent_*_latest financial facts (ISO date string).
risk_tier	string	FastDOL composite risk tier — one of LOW, MEDIUM, ELEVATED, HIGH.
risk_score	number	FastDOL composite risk score (0–100, continuous).
agencies_with_records	integer	Distinct federal agencies with any recorded activity at this establishment.
peer_violation_percentile	integer	Establishment's violation percentile within its NAICS peer set (0–100).
debarred	string	SAM.gov federal exclusion flag, stored as 't'/'f'.

Cite this dataset

Plain text

Turner, Ben (2026). Public Company Federal Compliance (Version 2026.05) [Data set]. FastDOL. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20031894

BibTeX

@dataset{turner_federalenforcement_2026,
  author    = {Turner, Ben},
  title     = {Public Company Federal Compliance},
  year      = {2026},
  version   = {2026.05},
  publisher = {FastDOL},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.20031894},
  url       = {https://www.fastdol.com/datasets/public-company-federal-compliance}
}

Changelog

2026.05 — 2026-05-01

Initial public release on FastDOL.
Mirrored to Hugging Face at FastDOLz/public-company-federal-compliance.
Source data refreshed through 2026-04-30 across all contributing agencies.
SEC EDGAR Exhibit 21 disclosures parsed through the most recent fiscal-year 10-K filings.

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