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US FOODS, INC.

1051 AMBOY AVE., PERTH AMBOY, NJ, 08861
Operated by US Foods Inc · 1 of 157 establishments
424410General Line Grocery Merchant Wholesalers
EIN 363642294

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OSHA inspections
5
over 12 years
Violations
4
$30,000 in penalties
Penalties
$30,000
$7,500 avg
Violations across 3 federal agencies
Enforcement actions from multiple agencies may indicate systemic compliance issues across functions.
Accident investigations on record
1 National Emphasis Program inspections

Summary

US FOODS, INC. has accumulated 4 OSHA violations across 5 inspections over 12 years of recorded history, with $30,000 in total assessed penalties.

The establishment sits in the 69th percentile for violations within its industry-state peer group of 437 employers. Inspection frequency runs at the 95th percentile. The most recent enforcement activity was recorded 1 year ago.

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

Agency coverage

US FOODS, INC. appears in OSHA workplace safety, WHD wage enforcement, and NLRB labor relations records only. No matching records were found in MSHA mine safety, EPA environmental compliance, 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
5
0.4 / yr · last 12 yrs
Violations
4
0.3 / yr
Penalties
$30,000
$7,500 avg / violation
Inspection trigger · referral
4 of 5
Inspection trigger · complaint
1 of 5

40% 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. 4 distinct standards shown · 4 citations in this view · $30,000 in penalties.

CFR sectionCitationsInspectionsTotal penaltyFirst citedLast cited
29 CFR 1910.0147 C07 I11$13,828Sep 2024Sep 2024
29 CFR 1910.0147 C04 I11$8,086Sep 2024Sep 2024
29 CFR 1910.0147 D04 I11$8,086Sep 2024Sep 2024
29 CFR 1910.0178 L0611Jun 2014Jun 2014

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

69th

Above average violations in NAICS 4244 within NJ. Peer group: 437 employers. This establishment has 4 OSHA violations; peer median is 1.

Fewer violationsMore violations
Penalty percentile
95th
peer median: $1,463
Inspection frequency
95th
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
14.2
vs industry
+10.8
TRIR
14.2
vs industry
+10.0

Reported for 258 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
4.2
BLS SOII 2024
Industry avg DART
3.4
BLS SOII 2024
Self-reported TRIR
14.2
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

Complaint
1
Referral
4

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) · May 2018 – Jul 2022 · 1 in last 5 years

Reports
5
Hospitalizations
5
Amputations
0
Eye losses
0

Most frequent event: Fall on same level due to slipping

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
Jul 8, 2022Fall on same level due to slippingBack, including spine, spinal cord, unspecifiedHospitalized
Nov 14, 2019Nonroadway collision with other vehicle, unspecifiedAnkle(s)Hospitalized
Dec 18, 2018NonclassifiableLeg(s), unspecifiedHospitalized
Aug 29, 2018Exposure to environmental heatBODY SYSTEMSHospitalized
May 16, 2018Fall on same level due to slippingForearm(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
1 year ago

Most recent federal enforcement activity recorded 1 year ago. Data on this page is refreshed weekly.

Wage & Hour Division (WHD)

Cases
1
Back wages owed
$0

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
FLSA — minimum wage & overtimeApr 202511

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

Case periodIndustryStatutesViolationsWorkersBackwagesCivil penalty
Apr 2023 – Apr 2025General Line Grocery Merchant WholesalersFLSA10

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 US FOODS, INC.. Verify directly with Mine Safety and Health Administration

Labor relations (NLRB)

Company-level in NJ — for US Foods Inc, not this location alone

Total cases
8
Unfair labor practice
7
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 US Foods 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.). 8 cases · 7 ULP · 1 representation

Case numberTypeFiledClosedStatusRegion
04-CA-309715Unfair labor practiceJan 2023Jan 2023ClosedRegion 04, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
04-CA-298536Unfair labor practiceJun 2022Aug 2022ClosedRegion 04, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
04-CA-289200Unfair labor practiceJan 2022Aug 2022ClosedRegion 04, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
22-CA-209909Unfair labor practiceNov 2017Jan 2018ClosedRegion 22, Newark, New Jersey
04-RC-139673Representation electionOct 2014Dec 2014ClosedRegion 04, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
04-CA-120402Unfair labor practiceJan 2014Jun 2015ClosedRegion 04, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
04-CA-106435Unfair labor practiceJun 2013Jul 2013ClosedRegion 04, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
22-CA-085464Unfair labor practiceJul 2012May 2013ClosedRegion 22, Newark, New Jersey

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 US FOODS, INC.. Verify directly with Office of Foreign Labor Certification

Environmental compliance (EPA)

No EPA inspections or formal enforcement actions on file for US FOODS, INC.. Verify directly with Environmental Protection Agency

Federal criminal prosecution record

No federal criminal prosecutions, plea agreements, or deferred-prosecution agreements on file for US FOODS, INC.. Verify directly with UVA Corporate Prosecution Registry

Federal contracts

This location

Obligated (5-yr)
$0
Obligated (all-time)
$96K
Awards
4
Top agency
Department of Homeland Security
$84K
Company-wide — USF HOLDING CORP. (across 75 entities)
Obligated (5-yr)
$729.0M
Obligated (all-time)
$5.1B
Awards (all-time)
317,263

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

Top agencies by obligation (this location)
Department of Homeland Security$84K
Department of Justice$12K
Largest awards
  • Department of Homeland Security
    IGF::OT::IGF - SUBSISTENCE FOR CGC EAGLE RECEIVED IN STATEN ISLAND, NY PORT OF CALL ON 15JUN2015 AND PHILADELPHIA, PA ON 26JUN2015
    contract · Last action 2015-09-02
    $84,213
  • Department of Justice
    IGF::OT::IGF FLOOR DRAINS
    contract · Last action 2012-12-05
    $6,057
  • Department of Justice
    IFG::OT::IFG FLOOR DRAINS
    contract · Last action 2012-12-05
    $6,057
  • Department of Homeland Security
    IGF::OT::IGF - SUBSISTENCE FOR CGC EAGLE RECEIVED IN STATEN ISLAND, NY PORT OF CALL ON 15JUN2015
    contract · Last action 2015-08-26
    $0

Federal contract dollars to this establishment. Primary NAICS: 311991 - PERISHABLE PREPARED FOOD MANUFACTURING. Last action: 2015-09-02. Source: USAspending.gov, net obligations. Recipient address is the SAM registration / HQ address, not necessarily the worksite.

Inspection history

DateTriggerViolationsSeriousPenalty
2024-03-27Referral3$30,000
2018-12-21Referral0$0
2016-02-25Complaint0$0
2014-07-10Referral0$0
2014-05-23Referral1$0

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

In the news

Part of a larger organization

US FOODS, INC. is one of 157 establishments rolled up under the parent organization US Foods Inc.

Federal enforcement records on this page represent activity at this specific establishment only. The full enforcement footprint of US Foods Inc across all 157 of its tracked locations is viewable on the parent profile.

Other employers in this industry and state

Other employers in general line grocery merchant wholesalers within NJ, ordered by federal enforcement volume:

Other locations under this parent

Other establishments operated by US Foods Inc, ordered by federal enforcement volume:

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About this data

This profile aggregates federal enforcement records on US FOODS, 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 US Foods Inc, which operates 157 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 US FOODS, INC.'s OSHA violation history?
US FOODS, INC. has 5 OSHA inspections on record with 4 violations and $30,000 in total penalties.
How does US FOODS, INC.'s safety record compare to its industry?
US FOODS, INC. operates in the general line grocery merchant wholesalers industry. The industry average Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) is 4.2. US FOODS, INC.'s self-reported DART rate is 14.17 compared to an industry average of 3.4.