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U.S. POSTAL SERVICE

1165 2ND AVENUE, DES MOINES, IA, 50318
Operated by United States Postal Service · 1 of 6,876 establishments
491110Postal Service
EIN 410760000

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OSHA inspections
44
over 36 years
Violations
123
$182,650 in penalties
SVEP
YES
Severe violator program
Violations across 3 federal agencies
Enforcement actions from multiple agencies may indicate systemic compliance issues across functions.
Accident investigations on record
4 National Emphasis Program inspections · 5 OSHA follow-ups

Summary

U.S. POSTAL SERVICE has accumulated 123 OSHA violations across 44 inspections over 36 years of recorded history, with $182,650 in total assessed penalties.

The establishment sits in the 100th percentile for violations within its industry-state peer group of 42 employers. Inspection frequency runs at the 98th percentile. The most recent enforcement activity was recorded 22 days ago.

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

Agency coverage

U.S. POSTAL SERVICE appears in OSHA workplace safety, WHD wage enforcement, EPA environmental compliance, and NLRB labor relations records only. No matching records were found in MSHA mine safety, 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
44
1.2 / yr · last 36 yrs
Violations
123
3.4 / yr
Penalties
$182,650
$1,485 avg / violation
54% serious46% other
Inspection trigger · complaint
30 of 44
Inspection trigger · planned
9 of 44

43% of inspections at this establishment produced violations, with 17 inspections producing serious-or-greater 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. 20 distinct standards shown · 46 citations in this view · $37,425 in penalties.

CFR sectionCitationsInspectionsTotal penaltyFirst citedLast cited
29 CFR 1910.0219 D0133$1,300Oct 1989May 2003
29 CFR 1910.0303 F33$975Oct 1989May 2003
29 CFR 1910.0219 E03 I33Oct 1989May 2003
29 CFR 1020.1 A32Oct 1989Mar 1993
29 CFR 1910.0107 G0332Oct 1989Mar 1993
29 CFR 1910.0305 G01 III33Oct 1989Mar 1993
29 CFR 1910.0178 P0122$26,250Jul 2010Mar 2015
29 CFR 1910.0303 B0222$5,000Sep 2012Nov 2012
29 CFR 1910.0305 G02 III22$1,300Mar 1993May 2003
29 CFR 1910.0151 C22$1,300Jan 1990May 2003
29 CFR 1910.0215 B0922$1,300Mar 1993May 2003
29 CFR 1910.0132 A22Jan 1990Mar 1997
29 CFR 1910.0022 A0122Oct 1989Mar 1996
29 CFR 1910.0157 C0122Oct 1989Mar 1993
29 CFR 1910.0037 F0622Oct 1989Mar 1993
29 CFR 1910.0305 A02 IIIG22Oct 1989Mar 1993
29 CFR 1910.0022 D0122Oct 1989Mar 1993
29 CFR 1910.0036 B0422Oct 1989Mar 1993
29 CFR 1910.0184 E02 II22Oct 1989Mar 1993
29 CFR 1910.0304 E01 IV22Oct 1989Mar 1993

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

100th

Worse on violations than nearly every other employer in NAICS 4911 within IA. Peer group: 42 employers. This establishment has 123 OSHA violations; peer median is 2.

Fewer violationsMore violations
Penalty percentile
100th
peer median: $1,538
Inspection frequency
98th
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
4.6
vs industry
TRIR
4.6
vs industry

Reported for 39 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.

Inspection breakdown

Planned
9
Complaint
30
Referral
1
Follow-up
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) · Sep 2021 – May 2024

Reports
2
Hospitalizations
2
Amputations
0
Eye losses
0

Most frequent event: Fall on same level due to tripping over an 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). 100% of this employer's reports came from a state-plan program.

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
May 8, 2024Other fall to lower level unspecifiedTrunk and other upper extremitiesHospitalized
Sep 15, 2021Fall on same level due to tripping over an objectMultiple body parts, n.e.c.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
22 days ago

Most recent federal enforcement activity recorded 22 days ago. Data on this page is refreshed weekly.

Wage & Hour Division (WHD)

Cases
4
Back wages owed
$0
Employees affected
4

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 · 2 violations · $0 in backwages

StatutePeriodCasesViolationsWorkersBackwagesCivil penalty
FMLA (family & medical leave)Apr 200722

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. 4 cases · $0 in backwages · 4 workers affected

Case periodIndustryStatutesViolationsWorkersBackwagesCivil penalty
Mar 2007 – Apr 2007Postal Service1
Apr 2006 – Apr 2007Postal Service1
Jan 2007 – Apr 2007Postal Service1
Mar 2007 – Apr 2007Postal Service1

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 U.S. POSTAL SERVICE. Verify directly with Mine Safety and Health Administration

Labor relations (NLRB)

Company-level in IA — for United States Postal Service, not this location alone

Total cases
3
Unfair labor practice
3

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 United States Postal Service 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.). 3 cases · 3 ULP

Case numberTypeFiledClosedStatusRegion
33-CA-013415Unfair labor practiceAug 2000Aug 2004ClosedRegion 25, Indianapolis, Indiana
33-CA-013414Unfair labor practiceAug 2000Aug 2004ClosedRegion 25, Indianapolis, Indiana
33-CA-012869Unfair labor practiceJan 1999Jun 2003ClosedRegion 25, Indianapolis, Indiana

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 U.S. POSTAL SERVICE. Verify directly with Office of Foreign Labor Certification

Environmental compliance (EPA)

EPA inspections
1
Quarters non-compliant
0

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). 1 facility.

FacilityPermitsStatusInspectionsFormal actionsPenaltiesLast inspectedECHO
US POSTAL SERVICE
1145-1165 2ND AVE · DES MOINES, IA, 50318
AirRCRANo Violation Identified10Apr 2022View →

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 U.S. POSTAL SERVICE. Verify directly with UVA Corporate Prosecution Registry

Federal contracts

No federal contracts are recorded to this specific location.

Company-wide — UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE (across 87 entities)
Obligated (5-yr)
$2.7M
Obligated (all-time)
$361.5M
Awards (all-time)
8,920

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
2026-05-27Complaint0$0
2025-08-12Follow-up0$0
2025-07-09Complaint0$0
2024-05-15Referral1$0
2023-01-18Complaint0$0
2021-11-16Complaint0$0
2020-07-22Complaint0$0
2019-10-17Complaint0$0
2014-10-02Complaint11$7,000
2014-10-02Complaint21$24,750
2012-08-14Planned55$11,500
2012-08-14Complaint33$7,500
2010-10-13Complaint31$26,400
2010-09-21Follow-up0$0
2010-05-25Complaint33$21,000
2009-12-02Complaint65$73,125
2004-03-17Complaint0$0
2003-05-12Planned119$11,375
2003-05-12Planned0$0
2002-08-30Complaint0$0
2002-03-18Complaint0$0
2001-10-24Complaint0$0
1999-08-25Complaint0$0
1999-06-09Complaint0$0
1999-04-14Complaint0$0
1999-04-13Complaint0$0
1998-04-14Complaint0$0
1997-08-12Complaint32$0
1997-07-16Complaint0$0
1997-03-20Complaint11$0
1996-01-26Unprogrammed Other0$0
1995-09-11Planned11$0
1995-09-11Programmed Other11$0
1994-12-09Complaint0$0
1993-04-21Complaint0$0
1993-01-15Follow-up0$0
1992-09-23Planned5$0
1992-09-23Planned2011$0
1991-08-12Complaint0$0
1991-01-10Complaint1$0
1991-01-10Complaint1$0
1990-08-23Complaint0$0
1989-09-29Planned9$0
1989-09-29Planned4623$0

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

In the news

Part of a larger organization

U.S. POSTAL SERVICE is one of 6,876 establishments rolled up under the parent organization United States Postal Service.

Federal enforcement records on this page represent activity at this specific establishment only. The full enforcement footprint of United States Postal Service across all 6,876 of its tracked locations is viewable on the parent profile.

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About this data

This profile aggregates federal enforcement records on U.S. POSTAL SERVICE 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 United States Postal Service, which operates 6,876 establishments in our dataset.

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Frequently asked

What is U.S. POSTAL SERVICE's OSHA violation history?
U.S. POSTAL SERVICE has 44 OSHA inspections on record with 123 violations and $182,650 in total penalties.