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Brown Construction Inc.
OSHA: 19 insp.Injuries: 2 yrLabor: 2 casesImmigration: no recordContracts: not listed
Across the sources on this site, Brown Construction Inc. (West Sacramento, California) appears in 19 OSHA inspections, 2 concluded Wage and Hour Division cases and 2 years of injury summaries.
OSHA opened 19 inspections at Brown Construction Inc. sites in California since 2016, issuing 6 citations, 2 of them classified serious, willful or repeat. Current penalties total $13,605 (initially $31,990), $716 per inspection, below the national figure of $3,754. 3 inspections have at least one contested citation.
On its 2024 Form 300A summary the employer reported 123 employees and 2 recordable cases, a total recordable case rate of 1.5 per 100 full-time workers, about the same as the pooled rate for its industry (1.8; median establishment 0.0).
The Wage and Hour Division concluded 2 compliance actions involving Brown Construction Inc., recording $44,735 in back wages agreed to pay for 11 employees, under the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts, Fair Labor Standards Act and Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act.
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.
Inspections by year
Compared with industry, state and nation
| Measure | This employer | NAICS 236 | California | US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citations per inspection | 0.3 | 1.2 | 1.9 | 1.9 |
| Current penalty per inspection | $716 | $2,116 | $3,729 | $3,754 |
| Share of inspections with a contested citation | 16% | — | 27% | 8% |
| Share of inspections with final orders on every citation | 21% | — | 59% | 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
| Standard | Subject | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| 5006.2 | — | 1 |
| 1527(A)(1)(D) | — | 1 |
| 1617.2 | — | 1 |
| 1617.1 | — | 1 |
| 1626(A)(1) | — | 1 |
| 1632(J) | — | 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
| Opened | Type | Scope | Citations | Current penalty | Status | Cited standards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Jun 2026 | Unprogrammed related · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Open | |
| 1 Aug 2025 | Planned · Health | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 21 May 2025 | Programmed related · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 11 Mar 2025 | Complaint · Safety | Partial | 1 | $560 | Final order | 5006.2(a) |
| 10 Jan 2025 | Unprogrammed related · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 17 Aug 2023 | Planned · Safety | Partial | 1 | $335 | Contested, final order | 1527(A)(1)(D) |
| 2 Mar 2023 | Unprogrammed related · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 6 Feb 2023 | Planned · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 2 Jun 2022 | Planned · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 21 Mar 2022 | Unprogrammed related · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 14 Aug 2020 | Planned · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 29 Jul 2020 | Programmed related · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 18 Feb 2020 | Planned · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 20 Sep 2019 | Complaint · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 25 Feb 2019 | Unprogrammed related · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 17 Jan 2018 | Planned · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 22 Dec 2016 | Unprogrammed related · Safety | Partial | 2 (1 S/W/R) | $8,400 | Contested, final order | 1617.2(b), 1617.1(f) (Serious) |
| 16 Nov 2016 | Unprogrammed related · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 28 Mar 2016 | Complaint · Safety | Partial | 2 (1 S/W/R) | $4,310 | Contested, final order | 1626(A)(1), 1632(J) (Serious) |
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.
Injury rate vs industry
Total recordable case rate for 2024. The industry median is the median rate across establishments with at least 20,000 hours in NAICS 236 (quartiles 0.0–3.6); "overall" rates pool all hours and cases.
By year
| Year | Establishments | Employees | Hours | Deaths | Days away | Restricted/transfer | Other | TRC rate | DART rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 128 | 256,988 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.8 | 0.0 |
| 2024 | 1 | 123 | 267,444 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1.5 | 0.0 |
Figures sum every establishment filed under this employer name in California. Rates are blank where fewer than 2,000 hours were reported.
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.
Back wages by year of case conclusion
Compared with state and nation
| Measure | This employer | NAICS 236 | California | US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Back wages per case | $22K | $17K | $15K | $13K |
| Employees per case | 5.5 | — | 10.8 | 13.1 |
| Back wages per employee found due | $4,067 | — | $1,389 | $993 |
Acts
| Act | Violations | Back wages |
|---|---|---|
| Davis-Bacon and Related Acts | 30 | $36,438 |
| Fair Labor Standards Act | 3 | $447 |
| Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act | 12 | $0 |
Cases
| Findings period | Violations | Back wages agreed | Employees | Penalties | Acts | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Dec 2013 – 19 May 2015 | 45 | $44,735 | 11 | — | Fair Labor Standards Act, Davis-Bacon and Related Acts, Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act | Concluded |
| 14 May 2010 – 15 Feb 2011 | 0 | $0 | 0 | — | — | Concluded |
Every case in the WHD file is concluded; the file does not record whether back wages were subsequently paid. Case IDs: 1754197, 1598744.
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.
No labor condition application from this employer in California appears in OFLC disclosure data for fiscal years 2025–2026.
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 Brown Construction Inc.?
Yes. OSHA records 19 inspections at Brown Construction Inc. sites in California since 2016, most recently opened 3 Jun 2026.
Were there penalties, and are they final?
6 citations with current penalties totalling $13,605. 4 inspections have a final order on every citation, 3 have a contested citation and 15 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 Brown Construction Inc.?
The Wage and Hour Division's concluded cases record $44,735 in back wages agreed to pay across 2 cases, for 11 employees.
Does Brown Construction Inc. sponsor H-1B workers, and at what wages?
No labor condition application from Brown Construction Inc. in California appears in OFLC disclosure data for fiscal years 2025–2026. LCAs are filed by the employer's headquarters state, so a subsidiary or another state's entity may hold the filings.
Does Brown Construction Inc. sponsor green cards (PERM)?
No PERM application from the employer appears in the fiscal years covered.
Does Brown Construction 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 Brown Construction 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.