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CBSL Transportation Services

Chicago, Illinois · NAICS 484121 · 50 employees reported · 9 federal records

OSHA: 8 insp.Injuries: 2 yrLabor: 1 caseImmigration: no recordContracts: not listed

The federal record for CBSL Transportation Services, Chicago, Illinois, consists of 8 OSHA inspections, 1 concluded Wage and Hour Division case and 2 years of injury summaries; the employer is classified under Truck Transportation.

OSHA opened 8 inspections at CBSL Transportation Services sites in Illinois since 2016, issuing 17 citations, 16 of them classified serious, willful or repeat. Current penalties total $84,838 (initially $144,785), $11K per inspection, above the national figure of $3,754. No citation is recorded as contested.

On its 2025 Form 300A summary the employer reported 50 employees and 1 recordable case, a total recordable case rate of 1.8 per 100 full-time workers, lower than the pooled rate for its industry (3.7; median establishment 3.1).

The Wage and Hour Division concluded 1 compliance action involving CBSL Transportation Services, recording $12,871 in back wages agreed to pay for 13 employees, under the Fair Labor 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.

8inspections since 2016
17citations issued16 serious, willful or repeat
$85Kcurrent penaltiesinitial $145K
0inspections with a contested citation3 with final orders on all

Inspections by year

20162017202020212025
Inspections opened per year; 2016: 15 citations, $71K · 2017: 1 citations, $5,704 · 2020: 1 citations, $8,000 · 2021: 0 citations, $0 · 2025: 0 citations, $0.

Compared with industry, state and nation

MeasureThis employerNAICS 484IllinoisUS
Citations per inspection2.11.32.11.9
Current penalty per inspection$11K$3,090$5,775$3,754
Share of inspections with a contested citation0%—4%8%
Share of inspections with final orders on every citation38%—61%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
1910.146Permit-required confined spaces5
1910.178Powered industrial trucks3
1910.132Personal protective equipment, general requirements1
1910.145Specifications for accident prevention signs and tags1
1910.22Walking-working surfaces, general requirements1
1910.23Ladders1
1910.176Handling materials, general1
1910.212Machinery and machine guarding, general requirements1

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
24 Feb 2025Programmed related · HealthPartial0—Case closed
1 Jul 2021Follow-up · SafetyPartial0—Case closed
14 Jul 2020Referral · SafetyPartial1 (1 S/W/R)$8,000Final order1910.132(a) (Serious)
4 Feb 2020Monitoring · HealthPartial0—Case closed
6 Dec 2017Complaint · HealthPartial0—Case closed
5 Jul 2017Follow-up · HealthPartial0—Case closed
21 Jun 2017Complaint · HealthPartial1 (1 S/W/R)$5,704Final order1910.145(f)(7) (Serious)
9 Nov 2016Complaint · HealthPartial15 (14 S/W/R)$71,134Final order1910.22(a)(2) (Serious), 1910.23(c)(1) (Serious), 1910.146(d)(13) (Serious), 1910.146(e)(1) (Serious), 1910.146(g)(2)(iv) (Serious), 1910.146(k)(2)(ii) (Serious) … +9

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.

1.8total recordable case rate, 2025industry median 3.1
0.0DART rate (days away, restricted or transferred)industry 2.9
50employees reported, 20251 establishment
1recordable cases, 20250 deaths, 0 with days away

Injury rate vs industry

This employer1.8
Industry median (484)3.1
Industry overall3.7
Illinois overall3.9
All establishments3.5

Total recordable case rate for 2025. The industry median is the median rate across establishments with at least 20,000 hours in NAICS 484 (quartiles 0.0–6.3); "overall" rates pool all hours and cases.

By year

YearEstablishmentsEmployeesHoursDeathsDays awayRestricted/transferOtherTRC rateDART rate
202315096,97401308.28.2
2025150111,09400011.80.0

Figures sum every establishment filed under this employer name in Illinois. 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.

1concluded cases
$13Kback wages agreed to pay13 employees
$0civil money penalties assessed
14violations recorded

Back wages by year of case conclusion

2010
Back wages agreed to pay by year; 2010: 1 case.

Compared with state and nation

MeasureThis employerNAICS 484IllinoisUS
Back wages per case$13K$16K$12K$13K
Employees per case13.0—13.513.1
Back wages per employee found due$990—$910$993

Acts

ActViolationsBack wages
Fair Labor Standards Act14$12,871

Cases

Findings periodViolationsBack wages agreedEmployeesPenaltiesActsStatus
9 May 2008 – 8 May 201014$12,87113—Fair Labor Standards ActConcluded

Every case in the WHD file is concluded; the file does not record whether back wages were subsequently paid. Case IDs: 1579982.

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 Illinois 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 CBSL Transportation Services?

Yes. OSHA records 8 inspections at CBSL Transportation Services sites in Illinois since 2016, most recently opened 24 Feb 2025.

Were there penalties, and are they final?

17 citations with current penalties totalling $84,838. 3 inspections have a final order on every citation, 0 have a contested citation and 5 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 CBSL Transportation Services?

The Wage and Hour Division's concluded cases record $12,871 in back wages agreed to pay across 1 case, for 13 employees.

Does CBSL Transportation Services sponsor H-1B workers, and at what wages?

No labor condition application from CBSL Transportation Services in Illinois 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 CBSL Transportation Services sponsor green cards (PERM)?

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

Does CBSL Transportation Services 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 CBSL Transportation Services?

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.