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IBM
OSHA: 1 insp.Injuries: no recordLabor: no recordImmigration: 1 PERMContracts: $1.1B
The federal record for IBM, San Jose, California, consists of 1 OSHA inspection, 1 PERM application and a federal contract recipient profile; the employer is classified under Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services.
OSHA opened 1 inspection at IBM sites in California 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.
OFLC records 1 PERM labor certification application from the employer; the employer reported 984 employees on payroll.
USAspending lists International Business Machines Corporation as a parent recipient of $1.1B in federal contract obligations over the latest twelve months.
Is this the same company? The sources spell the name differently and were matched by normalised name and state: OSHA: IBM; OFLC PERM: IBM Corporation; USAspending: International Business Machines Corporation. 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 541 | California | US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citations per inspection | 0.0 | 1.3 | 1.9 | 1.9 |
| Current penalty per inspection | $0 | $2,237 | $3,729 | $3,754 |
| Share of inspections with a contested citation | 0% | — | 27% | 8% |
| Share of inspections with final orders on every citation | 0% | — | 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.
Inspections
| Opened | Type | Scope | Citations | Current penalty | Status | Cited standards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Jul 2025 | Unprogrammed related · 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 California 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 California 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.
No labor condition application from this employer in California appears in OFLC disclosure data for fiscal years 2025–2026.
PERM labor certification (green card sponsorship)
Top PERM job titles
| Job title | Applications |
|---|---|
| Lead Data Scientist | 1 |
PERM occupations
| Occupation | Applications |
|---|---|
| Data Scientists | 1 |
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.
USAspending lists International Business Machines Corporation among the 3,903 largest federal contract recipients. The full award list is on the recipient profile.
Contract obligations by fiscal year
Awarding agencies
| Agency | Obligations, FY2021–2026 | Share of the agencies shown |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Defense | $2.6B | 42% |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $1.1B | 17% |
| Department of Homeland Security | $823M | 13% |
| General Services Administration | $574M | 9% |
| Social Security Administration | $561M | 9% |
| Department of the Treasury | $548M | 9% |
The USAspending name is matched to this employer by normalised company name across all states; the total covers the whole company.
Questions and answers
Has OSHA inspected IBM?
Yes. OSHA records 1 inspection at IBM sites in California since 2016, most recently opened 3 Jul 2025.
Were there penalties, and are they final?
The recorded inspections carry no citations.
Did the Labor Department find back wages due from IBM?
No concluded Wage and Hour Division compliance action names IBM in California in the data since fiscal year 2005.
Does IBM sponsor H-1B workers, and at what wages?
No labor condition application from IBM 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 IBM sponsor green cards (PERM)?
OFLC records 1 PERM application in fiscal years 2024–2026, 1 of them certified.
Does IBM hold federal contracts?
USAspending lists it among the largest contract recipients, with $1.1B obligated over the latest twelve months (recipient level: parent); the largest awarding agency is the Department of Defense.
Have there been union elections at IBM?
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: IBM; OFLC PERM: IBM Corporation; USAspending: International Business Machines Corporation). 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.