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CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES

3121 US 209, STONE RIDGE, NY, 12484
Operated by CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES INTERNATIONAL, INC · 1 of 18 establishments
112990All Other Animal Production

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OSHA inspections
3
over 30 years
Violations
10
$4,500 in penalties
Penalties
$4,500
$450 avg
Violations across 2 federal agencies
Enforcement actions from multiple agencies may indicate systemic compliance issues across functions.
Accident investigations on record
1 National Emphasis Program inspections

Summary

CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES has accumulated 10 OSHA violations across 3 inspections over 30 years of recorded history, with $4,500 in total assessed penalties.

The most recent federal enforcement activity was recorded 6 years ago.

Federal records were found in 2 of 15 sources. Sources without matching records returned empty for this establishment.

Agency coverage

CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES appears in OSHA workplace safety and WHD wage enforcement records only. No matching records were found in MSHA mine safety, EPA environmental compliance, NLRB labor relations, OFLC visa and labor certification (historical), FMCSA motor carrier registration, SAM.gov federal debarment, CMS nursing home enforcement, UVA Corporate Prosecution Registry, CPSC product recalls, or NHTSA vehicle recalls.

OSHA workplace safety

Inspections
3
0.1 / yr · last 30 yrs
Violations
10
0.3 / yr
Penalties
$4,500
$450 avg / violation
30% serious70% other
Inspection trigger · complaint
1 of 3
Inspection trigger · planned
1 of 3

67% of inspections at this establishment produced violations,

Most-cited OSHA standards

Top OSHA standards cited at this employer, ranked by citation count. Standards (CFR sections) cluster citations into safety themes -- machine guarding, lockout-tagout, hazard communication, fall protection, process safety, etc. A concentration on one or two sections reveals a pattern that individual citations don’t. 10 distinct standards shown · 10 citations in this view · $4,500 in penalties.

CFR sectionCitationsInspectionsTotal penaltyFirst citedLast cited
29 CFR 1910.0242 B11$1,500Dec 2007Dec 2007
29 CFR 1910.0253 B04 III11$1,500Dec 2007Dec 2007
29 CFR 1910.0305 G02 II11$1,500Dec 2007Dec 2007
29 CFR 1910.0037 Q0111Apr 1996Apr 1996
29 CFR 1910.1200 E0111Apr 1996Apr 1996
29 CFR 1910.1200 G0111Apr 1996Apr 1996
29 CFR 1910.0020 G01 I11Apr 1996Apr 1996
29 CFR 1910.1200 H11Apr 1996Apr 1996
29 CFR 1910.0020 G01 II11Apr 1996Apr 1996
29 CFR 1910.0020 G01 III11Apr 1996Apr 1996

Source: OSHA inspection citations (violation_detail). CFR section codes can be looked up at osha.gov/laws-regs for the formal standard text. Per-inspection detail and the specific violation descriptions are available by expanding individual inspections below.

Safety self-report (OSHA 300A)

Recordable injury rates the employer filed with OSHA’s Injury Tracking Application. DART covers cases with days away, restricted, or transferred; TRIR is the total recordable case rate.

DART rate
14.7
vs industry
+11.7
TRIR
17.6
vs industry
+13.3

Reported for 36 average annual employees at this establishment.

Source: OSHA ITA Form 300A (employer self-reported). Rates are per 100 full-time equivalent workers. Establishments below the ~10-FTE threshold are not required to report.

Industry benchmark

Industry avg TRIR
4.3
BLS SOII 2024
Industry avg DART
3.0
BLS SOII 2024
Self-reported TRIR
17.6
OSHA ITA Form 300A (employer self-reported)

BLS rates reflect industry-wide averages. Self-reported figures come from OSHA’s Injury Tracking Application; absence of self-reported data does not necessarily indicate non-compliance — many establishments fall below the ITA reporting threshold.

Inspection breakdown

Planned
1
Complaint
1

Complaint- and accident-triggered inspections are stronger risk signals than routine planned inspections.

OSHA severe injury reports

No severe injury reports (hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye) on file under 29 CFR 1904.39 for CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES. Verify directly with Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Activity timeline

Data refreshed
Weekly
First OSHA inspection
Most recent activity
6 years ago

No federal enforcement activity has been recorded against this establishment in 6+ years. Most recent activity: 6 years ago. Data on this page is refreshed weekly.

Wage & Hour Division (WHD)

Cases
1
Back wages owed
$0
Employees affected
1

Department of Labor Wage & Hour Division — minimum-wage, overtime, child-labor, FMLA, and prevailing-wage enforcement.

Wage and hour breakdown by law

Per-statute totals across all closed DOL Wage & Hour cases against this employer. Backwages reflect amounts the agency assessed; civil penalty is the separate fine where applicable. Some acts (Davis-Bacon, SCA, CWHSSA, H-2B, CCPA) don't carry a civil penalty field in DOL's data. 1 statute · 1 violation · $0 in backwages

StatutePeriodCasesViolationsWorkersBackwagesCivil penalty
FMLA (family & medical leave)Jul 200611

Source: DOL WHD enforcement database, aggregated per statute. Lifetime totals. A case can cite multiple statutes — so the total here may exceed the case count in the table above.

Wage and hour cases

Closed DOL Wage & Hour Division cases (FLSA, FMLA, H-2B, MSPA, and related statutes). Backwages reflect amounts the agency assessed; civil penalty (CMP) is a separate fine levied on top, where the statute provides for one (FLSA / H-1B / H-2A / MSPA / FMLA / EPPA / FLSA Child Labor; other acts have no CMP column in DOL’s data). The Statutes column lists which laws each case cited. 1 case · 1 violations · $0 in backwages · 1 worker affected

Case periodIndustryStatutesViolationsWorkersBackwagesCivil penalty
May 2006 – Jul 2006Medical LaboratoriesFMLA11

Source: DOL WHD enforcement database. Cases shown reflect those the agency has closed and made public. A violation count is the agency’s tally of cited violations (one violation can affect many workers); the workers column counts distinct employees the agency found to be affected.

Mine safety (MSHA)

No MSHA mine safety violations on file for CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES. Verify directly with Mine Safety and Health Administration

Labor relations (NLRB)

No NLRB unfair labor practice charges or union representation cases on file for CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES. Verify directly with National Labor Relations Board

Visa & labor certification (OFLC) — historical

No H-1B, H-2A, or H-2B labor condition applications on file (historical data only — DOL ended OFLC publication) for CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES. Verify directly with Office of Foreign Labor Certification

Environmental compliance (EPA)

No EPA inspections or formal enforcement actions on file for CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES. Verify directly with Environmental Protection Agency

EPA-registered facilities

Every EPA ECHO facility associated with this employer, sorted most-significant first. Each row links to EPA’s Detailed Facility Report for the source-of-truth record. Permits column lists active programs (Air = Clean Air Act, Water = Clean Water Act, RCRA = hazardous waste, TRI = Toxics Release Inventory reporting). 1 facility · 1 marked inactive.

FacilityPermitsStatusInspectionsFormal actionsPenaltiesLast inspectedECHO
CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES
RTE 209 PO BOX 241 · STONE RIDGE, NY, 12484
RCRANo Violation Identified00Jul 2014View →

Source: EPA ECHO (Enforcement and Compliance History Online). Compliance status follows EPA’s own labels (“Sig Violation” = significant noncompliance; QNCR = quarters of noncompliance over the recent reporting window). Inactive facilities (struck through) retain historical enforcement records even after operations ceased.

Federal criminal prosecution record

No federal criminal prosecutions, plea agreements, or deferred-prosecution agreements on file for CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES. Verify directly with UVA Corporate Prosecution Registry

Federal contracts

No federal contracts are recorded to this specific location.

Company-wide — CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES INTERNATIONAL, INC. (across 4 entities)
Obligated (5-yr)
$221.5M
Obligated (all-time)
$406.1M
Awards (all-time)
148

Consolidated across all USAspending recipient entities under this corporate parent — not attributable to this single location.

Federal contract activity for the parent corporation. Source: USAspending.gov, net obligations. Recipient address is the SAM registration / HQ address, not necessarily the worksite.

Inspection history

DateTriggerViolationsSeriousPenalty
2019-12-05Fatality/Catastrophe0$0
2007-11-29Planned33$4,500
1996-01-11Complaint7$0

Source: OSHA IMIS. Citation amounts reflect initially assessed penalties; final amounts after appeal may differ.

In the news

Part of a larger organization

CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES is one of 18 establishments rolled up under the parent organization CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES INTERNATIONAL, INC.

Federal enforcement records on this page represent activity at this specific establishment only. The full enforcement footprint of CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES INTERNATIONAL, INC across all 18 of its tracked locations is viewable on the parent profile.

Other employers in this industry and state

Other employers in all other animal production within NY, ordered by federal enforcement volume:

Other locations under this parent

Other establishments operated by CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES INTERNATIONAL, INC, ordered by federal enforcement volume:

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About this data

This profile aggregates federal enforcement records on CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES from every major federal compliance and enforcement source plus the UVA Corporate Prosecution Registry. OSHA workplace safety inspections, WHD wage cases, MSHA mine safety, EPA environmental enforcement, NLRB labor relations, OFLC visa/labor certification, FMCSA motor carrier registration, SAM.gov debarments, CMS nursing-home records, BLS industry safety benchmarks, OSHA ITA self-reported injury rates, SEC enforcement and financial disclosures, CPSC and NHTSA recalls.

Establishments are matched across agencies using normalized employer name, state, and ZIP code. This establishment resolves to the parent rollup CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES INTERNATIONAL, INC, which operates 18 establishments in our dataset.

OSHA citations typically appear 3–8 months after the inspection, so very recent enforcement actions may not yet be reflected. Profiles may be incomplete if the establishment operates under multiple legal names or files under variations our entity-matching rules don’t yet cover. To report a missing record or correction, email corrections@fastdol.com.

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Frequently asked

What is CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES's OSHA violation history?
CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES has 3 OSHA inspections on record with 10 violations and $4,500 in total penalties.
How does CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES's safety record compare to its industry?
CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES operates in the all other animal production industry. The industry average Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) is 4.3. CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES's self-reported DART rate is 14.65 compared to an industry average of 3.