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OSHA: 24 insp.Injuries: 3 yrLabor: 4 casesImmigration: no recordContracts: $130M
The federal record for UPS, Middletown, Pennsylvania, consists of 24 OSHA inspections, 4 concluded Wage and Hour Division cases, a federal contract recipient profile and 3 years of injury summaries; the employer is classified under Couriers and Messengers.
OSHA opened 24 inspections at UPS sites in Pennsylvania since 2016, issuing 8 citations, 2 of them classified serious, willful or repeat. Current penalties total $53,886 (initially $99,167), $2,245 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 19,875 employees and 1,209 recordable cases, a total recordable case rate of 8.6 per 100 full-time workers, about the same as the pooled rate for its industry (9.6; median establishment 7.6).
The Wage and Hour Division concluded 4 compliance actions involving UPS, recording no back wages, under the Family and Medical Leave Act and FLSA child labor provisions.
USAspending lists United Parcel Service Co. as a parent recipient of $130M 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: United Parcel Service; WHD: UPS; ITA: UPS; USAspending: United Parcel Service Co.. 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 492 | Pennsylvania | US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citations per inspection | 0.3 | 0.6 | 1.5 | 1.9 |
| Current penalty per inspection | $2,245 | $2,377 | $4,475 | $3,754 |
| Share of inspections with a contested citation | 4% | — | 4% | 8% |
| Share of inspections with final orders on every citation | 21% | — | 50% | 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
| Standard | Subject | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| 1910.36 | Design and construction requirements for exit routes | 2 |
| 1910.146 | Permit-required confined spaces | 1 |
| 1910.30 | Training requirements (walking-working surfaces) | 1 |
| 1910.22 | Walking-working surfaces, general requirements | 1 |
| 1910.28 | Duty to have fall protection and falling object protection | 1 |
| 1910.145 | Specifications for accident prevention signs and tags | 1 |
| 1910.37 | Maintenance, safeguards and operational features for exit routes | 1 |
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
| Opened | Type | Scope | Citations | Current penalty | Status | Cited standards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 Jul 2026 | Fatality/catastrophe · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Open | |
| 6 May 2026 | Fatality/catastrophe · Safety | No inspection | 0 | — | Open | |
| 1 Aug 2025 | Referral · Health | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 12 Nov 2024 | Complaint · Health | Partial | 1 | $0 | Final order | 1910.146(c)(7)(iii) |
| 12 Nov 2024 | Complaint · Safety | Partial | 1 | $5,000 | Final order | 1910.30(c) |
| 17 Jul 2024 | Complaint · Health | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 13 Jun 2024 | Complaint · Safety | Partial | 1 | $9,050 | Final order | 1910.22(c) |
| 31 Oct 2023 | Complaint · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 26 Oct 2023 | Complaint · Safety | Partial | 2 | $10,000 | Final order | 1910.28(b)(5)(i), 1910.145(f)(7) |
| 14 Jul 2023 | Complaint · Health | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 10 Jul 2023 | Referral · Health | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 23 Jun 2023 | Complaint · Health | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 28 Dec 2022 | Complaint · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 9 Dec 2022 | Complaint · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 9 Dec 2022 | Complaint · Health | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 6 Dec 2021 | Complaint · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 13 Jan 2020 | Complaint · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 6 Mar 2019 | Complaint · Safety | Partial | 3 (2 S/W/R) | $29,836 | Contested, final order | 1910.36(b)(1) (Serious), 1910.37(b)(4), 1910.36(g)(2) (Repeat) |
| 25 Oct 2018 | Planned · Safety | Complete | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 25 Oct 2018 | Programmed related · Health | Complete | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 3 May 2018 | Referral · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 15 Mar 2018 | Complaint · Health | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 1 Nov 2016 | Complaint · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 11 Mar 2016 | Complaint · 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.
Injury rate vs industry
Total recordable case rate for 2025. The industry median is the median rate across establishments with at least 20,000 hours in NAICS 492 (quartiles 3.7–13.9); "overall" rates pool all hours and cases.
By year
| Year | Establishments | Employees | Hours | Deaths | Days away | Restricted/transfer | Other | TRC rate | DART rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 50 | 21,712 | 28,971,913 | 0 | 394 | 578 | 156 | 7.8 | 6.7 |
| 2024 | 49 | 20,722 | 28,076,194 | 0 | 489 | 533 | 144 | 8.3 | 7.3 |
| 2025 | 51 | 19,875 | 28,172,596 | 0 | 537 | 543 | 129 | 8.6 | 7.7 |
Figures sum every establishment filed under this employer name in Pennsylvania. 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.
Back wages by year of case conclusion
Compared with state and nation
| Measure | This employer | NAICS 492 | Pennsylvania | US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Back wages per case | $0 | $22K | $12K | $13K |
| Employees per case | 0.0 | — | 12.6 | 13.1 |
| Back wages per employee found due | — | — | $967 | $993 |
Acts
| Act | Violations | Back wages |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Medical Leave Act | 3 | $0 |
| FLSA child labor provisions | 1 | $0 |
Cases
| Findings period | Violations | Back wages agreed | Employees | Penalties | Acts | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Feb 2023 – 5 Jun 2024 | 0 | $0 | 0 | — | — | Concluded |
| 5 Jan 2018 – 28 Mar 2018 | 3 | $0 | 0 | — | Family and Medical Leave Act | Concluded |
| 25 Feb 2013 – 24 Feb 2015 | 1 | $0 | 0 | — | FLSA child labor provisions | Concluded |
| 23 Aug 2011 – 30 Dec 2011 | 0 | $0 | 0 | — | — | Concluded |
Every case in the WHD file is concluded; the file does not record whether back wages were subsequently paid. Case IDs: 1990082, 1845548, 1753026, 1629899.
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 Pennsylvania 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.
USAspending lists United Parcel Service Co. among the 3,903 largest federal contract recipients. The full award list is on the recipient profile.
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 UPS?
Yes. OSHA records 24 inspections at UPS sites in Pennsylvania since 2016, most recently opened 24 Jul 2026.
Were there penalties, and are they final?
8 citations with current penalties totalling $53,886. 5 inspections have a final order on every citation, 1 has a contested citation and 19 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 UPS?
The Wage and Hour Division concluded 4 cases involving the employer and recorded no back wages.
Does UPS sponsor H-1B workers, and at what wages?
No labor condition application from UPS in Pennsylvania 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 UPS sponsor green cards (PERM)?
No PERM application from the employer appears in the fiscal years covered.
Does UPS hold federal contracts?
USAspending lists it among the largest contract recipients, with $130M obligated over the latest twelve months (recipient level: parent).
Have there been union elections at UPS?
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: United Parcel Service; WHD: UPS; ITA: UPS; USAspending: United Parcel Service Co.). 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.