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Target

Richmond, Virginia · NAICS 452112 · 13,857 employees reported · 22 federal records

OSHA: 22 insp.Injuries: 3 yrLabor: no recordImmigration: no recordContracts: not listed

Across the sources on this site, Target (Richmond, Virginia) appears in 22 OSHA inspections and 3 years of injury summaries.

OSHA opened 22 inspections at Target sites in Virginia since 2016, issuing 16 citations, 7 of them classified serious, willful or repeat. Current penalties total $34,877 (initially $48,990), $1,585 per inspection, below the national figure of $3,754. 1 inspection has at least one contested citation.

On its 2025 Form 300A summary the employer reported 13,857 employees and 285 recordable cases, a total recordable case rate of 3.5 per 100 full-time workers, about the same as the pooled rate for its industry (3.3; median establishment 2.4).

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.

22inspections since 2016
16citations issued7 serious, willful or repeat
$35Kcurrent penaltiesinitial $49K
1inspections with a contested citation6 with final orders on all

Inspections by year

2016’162017’172018’182021’212022’222023’232024’242025’252026’26
Inspections opened per year; 2016: 2 citations, $3,675 · 2017: 3 citations, $2,475 · 2018: 0 citations, $0 · 2021: 0 citations, $0 · 2022: 3 citations, $14K · 2023: 0 citations, $0 · 2024: 0 citations, $0 · 2025: 4 citations, $6,132 · 2026: 4 citations, $8,390.

Compared with industry, state and nation

MeasureThis employerNAICS 452VirginiaUS
Citations per inspection0.71.01.71.9
Current penalty per inspection$1,585$8,270$3,304$3,754
Share of inspections with a contested citation5%—6%8%
Share of inspections with final orders on every citation27%—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.

Citations by standard

StandardSubjectCitations
1910.37Maintenance, safeguards and operational features for exit routes4
1910.176Handling materials, general4
1910.36Design and construction requirements for exit routes2
1910.22Walking-working surfaces, general requirements2
1910.303Electrical, general requirements2
1910.178Powered industrial trucks2

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
3 Sep 2026Complaint · SafetyPartial0—Open
24 Jun 2026Complaint · SafetyPartial0—Case closed
7 Jan 2026Complaint · SafetyPartial4 (4 S/W/R)$8,390Final order1910.36(g)(4) (Serious), 1910.37(b)(4) (Serious), 1910.176(a) (Serious), 1910.176(b) (Serious)
25 Jun 2025Complaint · HealthPartial0—Case closed
25 Jun 2025Complaint · SafetyPartial4$6,132Final order1910.176(b), 1910.22(a)(1), 1910.37(b)(5), 1910.303(g)(1)(ii)
6 Aug 2024Complaint · SafetyPartial0—Case closed
10 Jul 2024Complaint · SafetyPartial0—Case closed
30 Nov 2023Referral · SafetyPartial0—Case closed
7 Sep 2023Complaint · SafetyPartial0—Case closed
31 Aug 2023Complaint · SafetyPartial0—Case closed
30 Aug 2023Complaint · SafetyPartial0—Case closed
12 Oct 2022Complaint · SafetyPartial2$4,735Final order1910.36(g)(2), 1910.37(a)(3)
4 Oct 2022Complaint · SafetyPartial1 (1 S/W/R)$9,470Final order1910.176(c) (Serious)
1 Nov 2021Planned · SafetyNo inspection0—Case closed
21 Jan 2021Complaint · HealthPartial0—Case closed
10 Apr 2018Complaint · SafetyPartial0—Case closed
10 Apr 2018Complaint · HealthPartial0—Case closed
2 May 2017Referral · SafetyPartial0—Case closed
3 Apr 2017Complaint · SafetyPartial3$2,475Contested, final order1910.22(a)(1), 1910.37(b)(5), 1910.303(g)(1)(ii)
13 Dec 2016Planned · SafetyNo inspection0—Case closed
30 Jul 2016Planned · SafetyPartial0—Case closed
13 Jun 2016Programmed related · SafetyPartial2 (2 S/W/R)$3,675Final order1910.178(m)(1) (Serious), 1910.178(n)(6) (Serious)

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.

3.5total recordable case rate, 2025industry median 2.4
2.8DART rate (days away, restricted or transferred)industry 2.5
13,857employees reported, 202570 establishments
285recordable cases, 20250 deaths, 98 with days away

Injury rate vs industry

This employer3.5
Industry median (452)2.4
Industry overall3.3
Virginia overall3.5
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 452 (quartiles 0.0–4.3); "overall" rates pool all hours and cases.

By year

YearEstablishmentsEmployeesHoursDeathsDays awayRestricted/transferOtherTRC rateDART rate
20237113,80016,200,5290103151734.03.1
20247013,83016,417,7990125177654.53.7
20257013,85716,304,475098129583.52.8

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

No concluded Wage and Hour Division compliance action names this employer in Virginia 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 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 Target?

Yes. OSHA records 22 inspections at Target sites in Virginia since 2016, most recently opened 3 Sep 2026.

Were there penalties, and are they final?

16 citations with current penalties totalling $34,877. 6 inspections have a final order on every citation, 1 has a contested citation and 16 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 Target?

No concluded Wage and Hour Division compliance action names Target in Virginia in the data since fiscal year 2005.

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

No labor condition application from Target 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 Target sponsor green cards (PERM)?

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

Does Target 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 Target?

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.