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Chipotle Mexican Grill
OSHA: 2 insp.Injuries: no recordLabor: 1 caseImmigration: no recordContracts: not listed
Chipotle Mexican Grill is an employer in Richmond, Virginia in Food services and drinking places. Federal records hold 2 OSHA inspections and 1 concluded Wage and Hour Division case.
OSHA opened 2 inspections at Chipotle Mexican Grill sites in Virginia since 2016, issuing 0 citations. Current penalties total $0, $0 per inspection, below the national figure of $3,754. No citation is recorded as contested.
The Wage and Hour Division concluded 1 compliance action involving Chipotle Mexican Grill, recording no back wages, under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Is this the same company? The sources spell the name differently and were matched by normalised name and state: OSHA: Chipotle Mexican Grill; WHD: Chipotle. Subsidiaries, franchisees and entities in other states have separate records. Matching methodology.
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 722 | Virginia | US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citations per inspection | 0.0 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 1.9 |
| Current penalty per inspection | $0 | $2,077 | $3,304 | $3,754 |
| Share of inspections with a contested citation | 0% | — | 6% | 8% |
| Share of inspections with final orders on every citation | 0% | — | 47% | 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.
Inspections
| Opened | Type | Scope | Citations | Current penalty | Status | Cited standards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Jun 2022 | Complaint · Health | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 17 Oct 2019 | Planned · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed |
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 Virginia 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.
Back wages by year of case conclusion
Compared with state and nation
| Measure | This employer | NAICS 722 | Virginia | US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Back wages per case | $0 | $9,389 | $24K | $13K |
| Employees per case | 0.0 | — | 15.2 | 13.1 |
| Back wages per employee found due | — | — | $1,565 | $993 |
Acts
| Act | Violations | Back wages |
|---|---|---|
| Fair Labor Standards Act | 1 | $0 |
Cases
| Findings period | Violations | Back wages agreed | Employees | Penalties | Acts | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Oct 2021 – 11 Oct 2023 | 1 | $0 | 0 | — | Fair Labor Standards Act | Concluded |
Every case in the WHD file is concluded; the file does not record whether back wages were subsequently paid. Case IDs: 1985691.
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 Virginia 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 Chipotle Mexican Grill?
Yes. OSHA records 2 inspections at Chipotle Mexican Grill sites in Virginia since 2016, most recently opened 2 Jun 2022.
Were there penalties, and are they final?
The recorded inspections carry no citations.
Did the Labor Department find back wages due from Chipotle Mexican Grill?
The Wage and Hour Division concluded 1 case involving the employer and recorded no back wages.
Does Chipotle Mexican Grill sponsor H-1B workers, and at what wages?
No labor condition application from Chipotle Mexican Grill in Virginia 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 Chipotle Mexican Grill sponsor green cards (PERM)?
No PERM application from the employer appears in the fiscal years covered.
Does Chipotle Mexican Grill 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 Chipotle Mexican Grill?
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; the sources spell the name differently (OSHA: Chipotle Mexican Grill; WHD: Chipotle). 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.