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Stericycle

28161 North Keith Drive, Lake Forest, IL, 60045
Operated by Stericycle Inc · 1 of 93 establishments
562211Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal
EIN 363640402

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OSHA inspections
0
over 21 years
Violations
0
Penalties
$0
Violations across 2 federal agencies
Enforcement actions from multiple agencies may indicate systemic compliance issues across functions.
Context
No OSHA inspections on record. This does not mean the employer is violation-free — OSHA inspects a small fraction of workplaces annually.

Summary

Stericycle has no OSHA inspection history on file. Federal records covering wage, environmental, labor relations, and other agencies are noted below where present.

The most recent federal enforcement activity was recorded 14 years ago.

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

Agency coverage

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

OSHA workplace safety

No OSHA inspections, citations, or accidents on file for Stericycle. Verify directly with Occupational Safety and Health Administration

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
15.7
vs industry
+14.4
TRIR
15.7
vs industry
+13.8

Reported for 25 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
1.9
BLS SOII 2024
Industry avg DART
1.3
BLS SOII 2024
Self-reported TRIR
15.7
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.

OSHA severe injury reports

Self-reported events under 29 CFR 1904.39 (24-hour notification of hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye) · Sep 2015

Reports
1
Hospitalizations
1
Amputations
0
Eye losses
0

Most frequent event: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet

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
Sep 22, 2015Other fall to lower level less than 6 feetAnkle(s)Hospitalized

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

Activity timeline

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

No federal enforcement activity has been recorded against this establishment in 14+ years. Most recent activity: 14 years ago. Data on this page is refreshed weekly.

Wage & Hour Division (WHD)

Cases
2
Back wages owed
$423
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 · $423 in backwages

StatutePeriodCasesViolationsWorkersBackwagesCivil penalty
Service Contract Act (federal services)Apr 2012111$423

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 · 1 violations · $423 in backwages · 1 worker affected

Case periodIndustryStatutesViolationsWorkersBackwagesCivil penalty
May 2010 – Apr 2012Hazardous Waste CollectionSCA11$423
Feb 2005All Other Waste Management Services0

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 Stericycle. Verify directly with Mine Safety and Health Administration

Labor relations (NLRB)

Company-level in IL — for Stericycle Inc, not this location alone

Total cases
7
Unfair labor practice
6
Representation (union)
1

National Labor Relations Board — unfair labor practice charges and union representation cases. The NLRB records cases at the company/regional level (no worksite address), so these are matched by company name and state and may span other Stericycle Inc locations in the same state.

NLRB cases

National Labor Relations Board cases involving this employer. Includes unfair labor practice (ULP) filings and representation election proceedings. NLRB enforcement is process-driven; no per-case monetary penalty is assessed (remedies are case-by-case backpay orders, posting requirements, election re-runs, etc.). 7 cases · 6 ULP · 1 representation

Case numberTypeFiledClosedStatusRegion
13-CA-360061Unfair labor practiceFeb 2025OpenRegion 13, Chicago, Illinois
13-CA-311515Unfair labor practiceFeb 2023May 2025ClosedRegion 13, Chicago, Illinois
13-CA-298760Unfair labor practiceJul 2022May 2025ClosedRegion 13, Chicago, Illinois
13-RC-246375Representation electionAug 2019Sep 2019ClosedRegion 13, Chicago, Illinois
04-CA-186804Unfair labor practiceOct 2016Jun 2019ClosedRegion 04, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
13-CA-129911Unfair labor practiceJun 2014Jul 2014ClosedRegion 13, Chicago, Illinois
13-CA-038432Unfair labor practiceMar 2000Apr 2001ClosedRegion 13, Chicago, Illinois

Source: NLRB case files. Rows shown are those the agency has published. Region numbers (1–31) correspond to NLRB's geographic offices.

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 Stericycle. Verify directly with Office of Foreign Labor Certification

Environmental compliance (EPA)

No EPA inspections or formal enforcement actions on file for Stericycle. 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
STERICYCLE
28161 N KEITH DR · LAKE FOREST, IL, 60045
RCRANo Violation Identified00Apr 2007View →

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

Prosecutions
1
Total payments
$52.5M
Disposition
DP
Crime type
FCPA

Independent monitor required. First case: 2022-04-18. Most recent: 2022-04-18. Source: UVA Corporate Prosecution Registry — federal pleas, DPAs, and NPAs.

Federal prosecution case file

Federal corporate prosecution records from the University of Virginia Corporate Prosecution Registry. DPA = Deferred Prosecution Agreement; NPA = Non-Prosecution Agreement; both are pre-trial settlements where the defendant accepts terms but avoids conviction. Monitor = court-appointed compliance oversight, usually 2-5 years. 1 case · 1 required a monitor · $52,500,000 in penalties / restitution.

CaseDateDispositionCrimeJurisdictionTotal paymentMonitor
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. STERICYCLE, INC.
Stericycle, Inc. · SRCL
Apr 2022DP
36-mo agreement
FCPAUSDOJ - Criminal Division - Fraud Section$52,500,000Yes

Source: University of Virginia Corporate Prosecution Registry (maintained by Prof. Brandon L. Garrett, Duke University). The registry has no state or jurisdiction-of-incorporation field on the company side, so same-name employers in different states may mis-attribute -- verify against the source case documents when precision matters.

Federal contracts

This location

Obligated (5-yr)
$292K
Obligated (all-time)
$53.6M
Awards
2,749
Top agency
Department of Veterans Affairs
$23.9M
Company-wide — STERICYCLE INC (across 66 entities)
Obligated (5-yr)
$6.9M
Obligated (all-time)
$88.6M
Awards (all-time)
4,170

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

Top agencies by obligation (this location)
Department of Veterans Affairs$23.9M
Department of Defense$19.0M
Department of Health and Human Services$5.9M
Department of Justice$3.2M
Department of Homeland Security$698K

Federal contract dollars to this establishment. Primary NAICS: 562211 - HAZARDOUS WASTE TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL. Last action: 2026-05-15. Source: USAspending.gov, net obligations. Recipient address is the SAM registration / HQ address, not necessarily the worksite.

In the news

Part of a larger organization

Stericycle is one of 93 establishments rolled up under the parent organization Stericycle Inc.

Federal enforcement records on this page represent activity at this specific establishment only. The full enforcement footprint of Stericycle Inc across all 93 of its tracked locations is viewable on the parent profile.

Other employers in this industry and state

Other employers in hazardous waste treatment and disposal within IL, ordered by federal enforcement volume:

Other locations under this parent

Other establishments operated by Stericycle Inc, ordered by federal enforcement volume:

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About this data

This profile aggregates federal enforcement records on Stericycle 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 Stericycle Inc, which operates 93 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 Stericycle's OSHA violation history?
Stericycle has no OSHA inspections on record.
How does Stericycle's safety record compare to its industry?
Stericycle operates in the hazardous waste treatment and disposal industry. The industry average Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) is 1.9. Stericycle's self-reported DART rate is 15.7 compared to an industry average of 1.3.