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ABF Freight System Inc

Fort Smith, Arkansas · NAICS 48412 · 4 federal records

OSHA: 2 insp.Injuries: no recordLabor: no recordImmigration: 2 LCAContracts: not listed

The federal record for ABF Freight System Inc, Fort Smith, Arkansas, consists of 2 OSHA inspections and 2 labor condition applications; the employer is classified under Truck Transportation.

OSHA opened 2 inspections at ABF Freight System Inc sites in Arkansas since 2016, issuing 3 citations. Current penalties total $32,394 (initially $40,197), $16K per inspection, above the national figure of $3,754. 1 inspection has at least one contested citation.

It filed 2 labor condition applications with OFLC across fiscal years 2025–2026, covering 2 worker positions. Wage figures are shown only where at least three applications state a wage, so none is given here. The most common prevailing wage level is Level IV (100% of filings).

OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Citations may be contested; the status shown reflects the record at the data date. Enforcement data through 14 Sep 2026.

2inspections since 2016
3citations issued0 serious, willful or repeat
$32Kcurrent penaltiesinitial $40K
1inspections with a contested citation2 with final orders on all

Inspections by year

20242026
Inspections opened per year; 2024: 2 citations, $18K · 2026: 1 citations, $14K.

Compared with industry, state and nation

MeasureThis employerNAICS 484ArkansasUS
Citations per inspection1.51.31.61.9
Current penalty per inspection$16K$3,090$6,567$3,754
Share of inspections with a contested citation50%—6%8%
Share of inspections with final orders on every citation100%—56%56%

Inspections with no citations count as "issued" with zero citations. Industry and state figures cover every inspection in the enforcement data since 2016, including employers without a page.

Citations by standard

StandardSubjectCitations
1910.178Powered industrial trucks2
1910.147The control of hazardous energy (lockout/tagout)1

Standard numbers as the record labels them (29 CFR section; 5(a)(1) is the General Duty Clause). State-plan agencies such as Cal/OSHA cite their own codes, which appear here as recorded. Counted from the first twelve citations of each inspection.

Inspections

OpenedTypeScopeCitationsCurrent penaltyStatusCited standards
23 Feb 2026Referral · SafetyPartial1$14,188Final order1910.147(d)(5)(ii)
7 Nov 2024Referral · SafetyComplete2$18,206Contested, final order1910.178(a)(6), 1910.178(p)(1)

Status is per inspection: "Contested" when any citation has a contest date and "Final order" when every citation has a final order date; "Issued" otherwise. Violation types: S serious, W willful, R repeat. Each date links to the inspection detail on osha.gov.

Injuries OSHA Injury Tracking Application, Form 300A

Establishments submit their own Form 300A summaries; OSHA publishes the data as submitted and does not verify it. Rates are per 100 full-time workers (cases × 200,000 ÷ hours worked). Calendar years 2023–2025.

No Form 300A summary for this employer in Arkansas is in the Injury Tracking Application data for 2023, 2024, 2025. Only establishments in covered industries with 20 or more employees (100 or more in some industries) must submit.

Labor Wage and Hour Division

The Wage and Hour Division publishes concluded compliance actions since fiscal year 2005; amounts are back wages the employer agreed to pay and civil money penalties assessed, as recorded at case conclusion. Data through 15 Jun 2026.

No concluded Wage and Hour Division compliance action names this employer in Arkansas in the data since fiscal year 2005.

Immigration Office of Foreign Labor Certification

Employer-specific case information was provided to OFLC by employers who submitted foreign labor certification applications. These are not employer responses to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' survey. Wage levels I–IV are as the employer stated on the application. LCA data through 30 Jun 2026; PERM through 30 Jun 2026.

H-1B labor condition applications

2applications, FY2025–20262 worker positions
100%certified0 denied, 0 withdrawn
—median offered wage (annualised)prevailing —
0%filed as H-1B dependentno willful-violator flag

Applications by fiscal year

FY2025FY2026 (to date)
Labor condition applications by fiscal year of decision; FY2025: 1 certified, 0 denied · FY2026: 1 certified, 0 denied. The latest fiscal year is partial.

Prevailing wage levels

Level I 0%Level II 0%Level III 0%Level IV 100%Not stated 0%

MeasureThis employerSOC 13-1081ArkansasUS
Median offered wage—$91,098$135,000$122,221
Offered wage, 25th–75th percentile—–—$72,000–$119,600——
Share at Level I or II0%60%41%56%

Wages annualised from the rate and unit on the application (hourly × 2,080). Medians use up to 400 sampled applications per employer. The occupation column is the employer's most common SOC code, Logisticians, across all employers.

Top job titles

Job titleFilingsMedian wage
Lead Prescriptive Analyst1—
Engineer III - Operations Research1—

Occupations (SOC)

OccupationFilingsSOC median wage
Logisticians1$91,098
Validation Engineers1$108,000

Worksite states

Arkansas 2

Visa classes: H-1B 2. Applications are attributed to the employer's state on the form (Arkansas); worksites may be elsewhere.

No PERM application from this employer appears in the fiscal years covered.

Contracts USAspending.gov

USAspending recipient totals are federal contract obligations reported by awarding agencies for the latest twelve months; a recipient profile is a company-level record, not a per-state one. Retrieved 1 Oct 2026.

Not among the top 3,903 federal contract recipients loaded from USAspending for the latest twelve months. Smaller awards can be searched on USAspending.gov.

Questions and answers

Has OSHA inspected ABF Freight System Inc?

Yes. OSHA records 2 inspections at ABF Freight System Inc sites in Arkansas since 2016, most recently opened 23 Feb 2026.

Were there penalties, and are they final?

3 citations with current penalties totalling $32,394. 2 inspections have a final order on every citation, 1 has a contested citation and 0 are recorded as issued. Citations may be contested; the status shown reflects the record at the data date.

Did the Labor Department find back wages due from ABF Freight System Inc?

No concluded Wage and Hour Division compliance action names ABF Freight System Inc in Arkansas in the data since fiscal year 2005.

Does ABF Freight System Inc sponsor H-1B workers, and at what wages?

It filed 2 labor condition applications in fiscal years 2025–2026; 2 were certified. Too few applications state a wage for a median to be shown; the most common job title is Lead Prescriptive Analyst.

Does ABF Freight System Inc sponsor green cards (PERM)?

No PERM application from the employer appears in the fiscal years covered.

Does ABF Freight System Inc hold federal contracts?

It is not among the top federal contract recipients loaded from USAspending; smaller awards are not covered on this site.

Have there been union elections at ABF Freight System Inc?

NLRB election results are not loaded on this site at present, so this page cannot say either way. The NLRB publishes recent election results and a case search on nlrb.gov.

Is this the same company as the one I am looking for?

Records are matched by normalised name and state. Subsidiaries, franchisees and other states' entities have their own records. See the methodology for how matching works.

Provenance

OSHA inspections and violations: US Department of Labor enforcement data, data.dol.gov, through 14 Sep 2026, inspections opened since 2016. Injury summaries: OSHA Injury Tracking Application Form 300A data, calendar years 2023, 2024, 2025. Wage and Hour compliance actions: data.dol.gov, concluded cases through 15 Jun 2026. LCA and PERM: OFLC disclosure files, fiscal years 2025–2026 through 30 Jun 2026. Federal contracts: USAspending recipient API, latest twelve months at 1 Oct 2026. NLRB election results are not loaded in this build. US government works, public domain; USAspending data is released under CC0. Page built 1 Oct 2026; errors in processing are corrected at the next build (corrections). Disputes about a record go to the agency that holds it.