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Sonic Drive-In
OSHA: 1 insp.Injuries: no recordLabor: 4 casesImmigration: no recordContracts: not listed
Sonic Drive-In is an employer in Melbourne, Florida in Food services and drinking places. Federal records hold 1 OSHA inspection and 4 concluded Wage and Hour Division cases.
OSHA opened 1 inspection at Sonic Drive-In sites in Florida 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 4 compliance actions involving Sonic Drive-In, recording $9,206 in back wages agreed to pay for 62 employees and assessing $26,009 in civil money penalties, under the Fair Labor Standards Act and FLSA child labor provisions.
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 | Florida | US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citations per inspection | 0.0 | 1.6 | 1.3 | 1.9 |
| Current penalty per inspection | $0 | $2,077 | $4,711 | $3,754 |
| Share of inspections with a contested citation | 0% | — | 3% | 8% |
| Share of inspections with final orders on every citation | 0% | — | 51% | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Jun 2024 | Complaint · Health | 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 Florida 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 | Florida | US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Back wages per case | $2,302 | $9,389 | $10K | $13K |
| Employees per case | 15.5 | — | 12.1 | 13.1 |
| Back wages per employee found due | $148 | — | $846 | $993 |
Acts
| Act | Violations | Back wages |
|---|---|---|
| Fair Labor Standards Act | 69 | $9,206 |
| FLSA child labor provisions | 12 | $0 |
Cases
| Findings period | Violations | Back wages agreed | Employees | Penalties | Acts | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Sep 2018 – 4 Sep 2020 | 7 | $0 | 0 | $23,905 | FLSA child labor provisions | Concluded |
| 18 Jan 2010 – 15 Jan 2012 | 19 | $1,914 | 19 | — | Fair Labor Standards Act | Concluded |
| 21 Nov 2009 – 20 Nov 2011 | 16 | $1,448 | 16 | — | Fair Labor Standards Act | Concluded |
| 15 Oct 2006 – 30 Sep 2008 | 39 | $5,844 | 27 | $2,104 | Fair Labor Standards Act, FLSA child labor provisions | Concluded |
Every case in the WHD file is concluded; the file does not record whether back wages were subsequently paid. Case IDs: 1919743, 1642719, 1636750, 1525334.
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 Florida 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 Sonic Drive-In?
Yes. OSHA records 1 inspection at Sonic Drive-In sites in Florida since 2016, most recently opened 21 Jun 2024.
Were there penalties, and are they final?
The recorded inspections carry no citations.
Did the Labor Department find back wages due from Sonic Drive-In?
The Wage and Hour Division's concluded cases record $9,206 in back wages agreed to pay across 4 cases, for 62 employees.
Does Sonic Drive-In sponsor H-1B workers, and at what wages?
No labor condition application from Sonic Drive-In in Florida 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 Sonic Drive-In sponsor green cards (PERM)?
No PERM application from the employer appears in the fiscal years covered.
Does Sonic Drive-In 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 Sonic Drive-In?
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.