United States · Workplace safety records
OSHA inspection search, and which door to use.
OSHA publishes inspection data through several separate searches. This guide matches what you know to the right one and gives real inspection totals to read a result against.
Short answer: Use OSHA’s Establishment search when you know the employer, the NAICS search when you know the industry, and the inspection number search when you hold a number from a document. In fiscal year 2025 OSHA conducted 30,273 inspections, 53.9% of them unprogrammed.
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What OSHA’s Data page offers
OSHA’s Data page says the agency collects inspection and citation data, injury and illness data that employers submit electronically, work-related severe injury and fatality data, and chemical exposure health data. It says employers, workers, safety professionals and other interested parties may view and download the publicly available data provided online.
For inspections specifically, the page lists six ways in: Investigation Summaries, Establishment, NAICS, Inspection Number(s), General Duty Clause Violation and the DOL Open Data Portal. The selector above maps what you know to each of those routes and links to the page OSHA itself lists.
Worked example: reading a result against the national picture
A search result is one inspection among many, so it helps to know what a typical year looks like. OSHA’s enforcement summary reports that in fiscal year 2025 it conducted 30,273 inspections: 16,311 unprogrammed and 13,962 programmed. Unprogrammed inspections are those started by employee complaints, injuries or fatalities, and referrals. Programmed inspections are those started by emphasis programs aimed at industries and operations with known hazards.
The shares work out as 16,311 ÷ 30,273 = 53.9% unprogrammed and 13,962 ÷ 30,273 = 46.1% programmed. Inside the unprogrammed group, OSHA lists 6,664 complaint inspections (22.0% of all inspections), 6,079 referrals (20.1%), 909 fatality or catastrophe inspections (3.0%) and 2,659 other (8.8%). Against fiscal year 2024, total inspections fell from 34,625 to 30,273, a drop of 4,352 or 12.6%, and programmed inspections fell from 17,170 to 13,962, a drop of 3,208 or 18.7%.
So if a workplace in your search shows a programmed inspection, that alone says little: nearly half of all inspections that year were of that kind. A complaint or a fatality inspection is a different trigger, and the type is worth noting when you read the record.
Method
This page does not query OSHA. The selector shows one fixed link per route from the Data page, and the totals above are copied from OSHA’s enforcement summary with the percentages calculated here from those published counts. Nothing you select is sent to our servers.
What this does not cover
- How each OSHA search behaves in detail. OSHA’s search pages did not load for the automated fetch used to prepare this guide, so this page describes only what OSHA’s Data and enforcement pages state.
- Terms of use for downloading or republishing OSHA data. Those were not verified, which is why this page links out and copies no inspection records.
- State-plan inspections, which state agencies run in their own systems.
- Whether any single employer is safe or unsafe. An inspection record is not a verdict.
Sources
- OSHA, Data: OSHA Data Available to View and Download (retrieved October 2026)
- OSHA, Enforcement summary: inspection activity FY2020 to FY2025 (retrieved October 2026)
Common mix-ups
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Often assumedOSHA only inspects a workplace after someone complains.
What the source saysOSHA reports 30,273 inspections in fiscal year 2025, and 13,962 of them were programmed, started by emphasis programs aimed at industries with known hazards rather than by a complaint, injury or referral. Complaint inspections were 6,664. [1]
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Often assumedSearching by company name is the only way to find OSHA inspection records.
What the source saysOSHA's Data page lists six ways into inspection data: Investigation Summaries, Establishment, NAICS, Inspection Number(s), General Duty Clause Violation and the DOL Open Data Portal. [2]
- OSHA: Enforcement summary, inspection activity FY2020-FY2025
- OSHA: Data available to view and download
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Frequently asked questions
How do I search OSHA inspections for a company?
Use the Establishment search listed on OSHA’s Data page. If you only know the industry, use the NAICS search, and if you have an inspection number from a document, use the Inspection Number(s) search.
What kinds of OSHA data are public?
OSHA’s Data page lists inspection and citation data, injury and illness data electronically submitted by employers, severe injury and fatality data, and chemical exposure health data.
What is the difference between programmed and unprogrammed inspections?
OSHA says unprogrammed inspections start from employee complaints, injuries or fatalities, and referrals. Programmed inspections start from emphasis programs that target industries and operations with known hazards.
How many inspections does OSHA do in a year?
OSHA reports 30,273 inspections in fiscal year 2025, down from 34,625 in fiscal year 2024. Of the 2025 total, 16,311 were unprogrammed and 13,962 were programmed.
Can I download OSHA inspection data in bulk?
OSHA’s Data page lists the DOL Open Data Portal as one of the inspection data routes. This page does not republish any records and has not verified the portal’s terms of use.
Where do I find a workplace fatality?
OSHA’s Data page lists Investigation Summaries for fatalities and non-fatalities and Work-Related Fatalities Inspected by OSHA. The selector on this page links to the investigation summaries search.
Guide only — not an OSHA tool
This page is an unofficial guide. It is not run by OSHA or the Department of Labor, does not search or copy OSHA records, and nothing you select here is transmitted anywhere. An inspection record is not a finding about any employer. Use the official OSHA pages linked above to confirm anything that matters. This is general information, not legal or safety advice.