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DELTA AIR LINES INC.

JFK AIRPORT VANWYCK AND JFK EXPRESSWAY, JAMAICA, NY, 11430
Operated by Delta Air Lines · 1 of 156 establishments
481111Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation
EIN 580218533

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OSHA inspections
7
over 31 years
Violations
1
$2,500 in penalties
Penalties
$2,500
$2,500 avg
Violations across 3 federal agencies
Enforcement actions from multiple agencies may indicate systemic compliance issues across functions.
Accident investigations on record
3 fatalities · 1 National Emphasis Program inspections · 2 OSHA follow-ups

Summary

DELTA AIR LINES INC. has accumulated 1 OSHA violation across 7 inspections over 31 years of recorded history, with $2,500 in total assessed penalties.

The establishment sits in the 59th percentile for violations within its industry-state peer group of 47 employers. Inspection frequency runs at the 96th percentile. The most recent enforcement activity was recorded 2 years ago.

Federal records were found in 3 of 15 sources. Sources without matching records returned empty for this establishment.

Agency coverage

DELTA AIR LINES INC. appears in OSHA workplace safety, WHD wage enforcement, and EPA environmental compliance records only. No matching records were found in MSHA mine safety, 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
7
0.2 / yr · last 31 yrs
Violations
1
0.0 / yr
Penalties
$2,500
$2,500 avg / violation
100% serious0% other
Inspection trigger · referral
3 of 7
Inspection trigger · accident
2 of 7

14% 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. 1 distinct standard shown · 1 citation in this view · $2,500 in penalties.

CFR sectionCitationsInspectionsTotal penaltyFirst citedLast cited
5A000111$2,500Aug 1997Aug 1997

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.

Peer comparison

59th

Above average violations in NAICS 4811 within NY. Peer group: 47 employers. This establishment has 1 OSHA violation; peer median is 0.

Fewer violationsMore violations
Penalty percentile
87th
peer median: $0
Inspection frequency
96th
peer median: 1

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
3.0
vs industry
−3.4
TRIR
3.0
vs industry
−4.4

Reported for 34 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
7.4
BLS SOII 2024
Industry avg DART
6.4
BLS SOII 2024
Self-reported TRIR
3.0
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
Accident
2
Referral
3

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

OSHA severe injury reports

Self-reported events under 29 CFR 1904.39 (24-hour notification of hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye) · Mar 2016 – Aug 2016

Reports
2
Hospitalizations
2
Amputations
0
Eye losses
0

Most frequent event: Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other object

Source: OSHA Severe Injury Reports (federal OSHA only; state-plan states like California, Oregon, and Washington maintain their own programs and do not consistently report into this feed).

Severe injury reports — events

Each row is a hospitalization, amputation, or eye-loss event the employer self-reported to OSHA under 29 CFR 1904.39. Narratives are written by the reporting employer.

DateEventBody partOutcome
Aug 25, 2016Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other objectLeg(s), unspecifiedHospitalized
Mar 22, 2016Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area, n.e.c.Ankle(s)Hospitalized

Source: OSHA Severe Injury Reports. Federal-OSHA jurisdiction only by default; some state-plan programs report voluntarily.

OSHA accident events

Accidents, fatalities, and catastrophes documented during OSHA inspections at this employer. Each entry links to the inspection that recorded it.

DateEventInjuriesHospitalizedFatalities
Jun 18, 2021Aircraft,Airport,Cardiovasc System,Equipment Operator,Heart Attack,Natural CausesFatality11
Mar 27, 1997AIRCRAFT,AIRPORT,WORK RULES,RUN OVER,COMMUNICATION,INATTENTIONFatality11
Jul 31, 1994CAUGHT BETWEEN,CRUSHED,INDUSTRIAL TRUCK,CONVEYOR,BACKING UP,STEERING WHEELFatality11

Source: OSHA accident investigations. Narratives are recorded by the inspecting officer and may be truncated.

Activity timeline

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

No federal enforcement activity has been recorded against this establishment in 2+ years. Most recent activity: 2 years ago. Data on this page is refreshed weekly.

Wage & Hour Division (WHD)

Cases
2
Back wages owed
$0
Employees affected
2

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 · 3 violations · $0 in backwages

StatutePeriodCasesViolationsWorkersBackwagesCivil penalty
FMLA (family & medical leave)May 202413

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. 2 cases · 3 violations · $0 in backwages · 2 workers affected

Case periodIndustryStatutesViolationsWorkersBackwagesCivil penalty
Dec 2023 – May 2024Scheduled Freight Air TransportationFMLA31
Jan 2016 – Dec 2017Other Support Activities for Air Transportation1

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 DELTA AIR LINES INC.. Verify directly with Mine Safety and Health Administration

Labor relations (NLRB)

No NLRB unfair labor practice charges or union representation cases on file for DELTA AIR LINES INC.. 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 DELTA AIR LINES INC.. Verify directly with Office of Foreign Labor Certification

Environmental compliance (EPA)

EPA inspections
2
Quarters non-compliant
8

EPA Enforcement and Compliance History — Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, RCRA, Safe Drinking Water Act. Status: No Violation Identified.

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). 2 facilities.

FacilityPermitsStatusInspectionsFormal actionsPenaltiesLast inspectedECHO
DELTA AIR LINES INC
JFK INTL AIRPORT TERMINAL 3 · JAMAICA, NY, 11430
RCRANo Violation Identified
QNCR 4
10Feb 2024View →
DELTA AIR LINES INC
JFK INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT · JAMAICA, NY, 11430
AirRCRANo Violation Identified
QNCR 4
10Feb 2024View →

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 DELTA AIR LINES INC.. Verify directly with UVA Corporate Prosecution Registry

Federal contracts

No federal contracts are recorded to this specific location.

Company-wide — DELTA AIR LINES, INC. (across 6 entities)
Obligated (5-yr)
$68.0M
Obligated (all-time)
$630.2M
Awards (all-time)
2,500

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
2021-06-18Fatality/Catastrophe0$0
2016-08-29Referral0$0
2016-03-23Referral0$0
2015-08-04Referral0$0
2011-08-18Planned0$0
1997-03-27Accident11$2,500
1994-08-01Accident0$0

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

In the news

Part of a larger organization

DELTA AIR LINES INC. is one of 156 establishments rolled up under the parent organization Delta Air Lines.

Federal enforcement records on this page represent activity at this specific establishment only. The full enforcement footprint of Delta Air Lines across all 156 of its tracked locations is viewable on the parent profile.

Other employers in this industry and state

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Other locations under this parent

Other establishments operated by Delta Air Lines, ordered by federal enforcement volume:

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About this data

This profile aggregates federal enforcement records on DELTA AIR LINES INC. 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 Delta Air Lines, which operates 156 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 DELTA AIR LINES INC.'s OSHA violation history?
DELTA AIR LINES INC. has 7 OSHA inspections on record with 1 violation and $2,500 in total penalties.
How does DELTA AIR LINES INC.'s safety record compare to its industry?
DELTA AIR LINES INC. operates in the scheduled passenger air transportation industry. The industry average Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) is 7.4. DELTA AIR LINES INC.'s self-reported DART rate is 2.98 compared to an industry average of 6.4.
Has DELTA AIR LINES INC. had any workplace fatalities?
Yes. Federal records show 3 fatality investigations involving DELTA AIR LINES INC..