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Metro Transit

Minneapolis, Minnesota · NAICS 485111 · 3,573 employees reported · 7 federal records

OSHA: no recordInjuries: 3 yrLabor: 7 casesImmigration: no recordContracts: not listed

Metro Transit is an employer in Minneapolis, Minnesota in Transit and ground passenger transportation. Federal records hold 7 concluded Wage and Hour Division cases and 3 years of injury summaries.

On its 2025 Form 300A summary the employer reported 3,573 employees and 141 recordable cases, a total recordable case rate of 4.5 per 100 full-time workers, about the same as the pooled rate for its industry (4.8; median establishment 3.3).

The Wage and Hour Division concluded 7 compliance actions involving Metro Transit, recording $1,705 in back wages agreed to pay for 1 employee, under the Family and Medical Leave 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.

No OSHA inspection of this employer in Minnesota appears in the enforcement data since 2016. Inspections are recorded at the establishment; sites in other states are listed under those states.

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.

4.5total recordable case rate, 2025industry median 3.3
4.2DART rate (days away, restricted or transferred)industry 3.5
3,573employees reported, 202517 establishments
141recordable cases, 20250 deaths, 122 with days away

Injury rate vs industry

This employer4.5
Industry median (485)3.3
Industry overall4.8
Minnesota overall3.6
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 485 (quartiles 0.0–6.7); "overall" rates pool all hours and cases.

By year

YearEstablishmentsEmployeesHoursDeathsDays awayRestricted/transferOtherTRC rateDART rate
2023142,7784,913,760013815287.46.2
2024163,0065,295,880089873.93.7
2025173,5736,229,71101228114.54.2

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

7concluded cases
$1,705back wages agreed to pay1 employees
$0civil money penalties assessed
116violations recorded

Back wages by year of case conclusion

201020122013201420172020
Back wages agreed to pay by year; 2010: 1 case · 2012: 1 case · 2013: 1 case · 2014: 2 cases · 2017: 1 case · 2020: 1 case.

Compared with state and nation

MeasureThis employerNAICS 485MinnesotaUS
Back wages per case$244$21K$15K$13K
Employees per case0.1—21.413.1
Back wages per employee found due$1,705—$702$993

Acts

ActViolationsBack wages
Family and Medical Leave Act115$0

Cases

Findings periodViolationsBack wages agreedEmployeesPenaltiesActsStatus
19 Jan 2020 – 12 Jun 20202$1,7051—Family and Medical Leave ActConcluded
8 Mar 2015 – 7 Mar 20172$00—Family and Medical Leave ActConcluded
1 Sep 2012 – 23 Apr 2014106$00—Family and Medical Leave ActConcluded
1 Sep 2012 – 1 Apr 20143$00—Family and Medical Leave ActConcluded
14 Jul 2012 – 12 Jun 20130$00——Concluded
22 Nov 2012 – 22 Nov 20122$00—Family and Medical Leave ActConcluded
14 Sep 2010 – 22 Sep 20101$00—Family and Medical Leave ActConcluded

Every case in the WHD file is concluded; the file does not record whether back wages were subsequently paid. Case IDs: 1913934, 1815113, 1693224, 1693221, 1711016, ….

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 Minnesota 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 Metro Transit?

No OSHA inspection of Metro Transit in Minnesota appears in the enforcement data since 2016.

Were there penalties, and are they final?

No OSHA record, so no penalties to report.

Did the Labor Department find back wages due from Metro Transit?

The Wage and Hour Division's concluded cases record $1,705 in back wages agreed to pay across 7 cases, for 1 employee.

Does Metro Transit sponsor H-1B workers, and at what wages?

No labor condition application from Metro Transit in Minnesota 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 Metro Transit sponsor green cards (PERM)?

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

Does Metro Transit 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 Metro Transit?

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.