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US Postal Service
OSHA: 116 insp.Injuries: 2 yrLabor: 114 casesImmigration: no recordContracts: not listed
Across the sources on this site, US Postal Service (Houston, Texas) appears in 116 OSHA inspections, 114 concluded Wage and Hour Division cases and 2 years of injury summaries.
OSHA opened 116 inspections at US Postal Service sites in Texas since 2016, issuing 79 citations, 35 of them classified serious, willful or repeat. Current penalties total $468,973 (initially $1,015,561), $4,043 per inspection, close to the national figure of $3,754. 13 inspections have at least one contested citation.
On its 2024 Form 300A summary the employer reported 39,869 employees and 2,505 recordable cases, a total recordable case rate of 6.8 per 100 full-time workers, about the same as the pooled rate for its industry (6.4; median establishment 5.8).
The Wage and Hour Division concluded 114 compliance actions involving US Postal Service, recording $45,966 in back wages agreed to pay for 33 employees, under the Family and Medical Leave Act and Fair Labor Standards Act.
Is this the same company? The sources spell the name differently and were matched by normalised name and state: OSHA: United States Postal Service; WHD: USPS; ITA: US Postal Service. 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 491 | Texas | US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citations per inspection | 0.7 | 0.7 | 1.6 | 1.9 |
| Current penalty per inspection | $4,043 | $3,498 | $5,523 | $3,754 |
| Share of inspections with a contested citation | 11% | — | 4% | 8% |
| Share of inspections with final orders on every citation | 31% | — | 60% | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1910.157 | Portable fire extinguishers | 9 |
| 1910.303 | Electrical, general requirements | 8 |
| 1910.141 | Sanitation | 8 |
| 1910.22 | Walking-working surfaces, general requirements | 6 |
| 1910.178 | Powered industrial trucks | 5 |
| 1910.37 | Maintenance, safeguards and operational features for exit routes | 5 |
| 1910.147 | The control of hazardous energy (lockout/tagout) | 5 |
| 1904.39 | Reporting fatalities and severe injuries to OSHA | 4 |
| 1910.176 | Handling materials, general | 3 |
| 1910.151 | Medical services and first aid | 2 |
| 1910.212 | Machinery and machine guarding, general requirements | 2 |
| 1904.29 | Forms (recordkeeping) | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Sep 2026 | Referral · Health | Partial | 0 | — | Open | |
| 22 Jul 2026 | Fatality/catastrophe · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Open | |
| 15 Oct 2025 | Referral · Safety | Partial | 2 (2 S/W/R) | $22,700 | Issued | 1910.151(b) (Serious), 1910.212(a)(1) (Serious) |
| 8 Aug 2025 | Referral · Health | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 23 Jun 2025 | Fatality/catastrophe · Health | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 11 Dec 2024 | Complaint · Safety | Partial | 1 | $3,500 | Final order | 1910.22(a)(1) |
| 10 Dec 2024 | Unprogrammed related · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 29 Oct 2024 | Complaint · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 13 Sep 2024 | Complaint · Health | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 22 Aug 2024 | Complaint · Health | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 14 Aug 2024 | Complaint · Health | Records only | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 13 Aug 2024 | Complaint · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 12 Aug 2024 | Referral · Health | Partial | 2 | $1,500 | Contested, final order | 1904.7(a), 1904.32(b)(3) |
| 6 Aug 2024 | Referral · Safety | Partial | 1 | $1,774 | Final order | 1904.4(a) |
| 19 Jul 2024 | Complaint · Health | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 16 Jul 2024 | Complaint · Health | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 2 Jul 2024 | Referral · Health | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 24 Jun 2024 | Referral · Health | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 23 May 2024 | Referral · Health | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 23 May 2024 | Complaint · Safety | Partial | 3 (2 S/W/R) | $13,828 | Final order | 1910.178(p)(1) (Serious), 1910.303(b)(7)(iv) (Serious), 1910.157(c)(1) |
| 21 May 2024 | Complaint · Safety | Partial | 1 | $6,000 | Final order | 1910.303(g)(1)(ii) |
| 14 May 2024 | Complaint · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 22 Mar 2024 | Referral · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 13 Dec 2023 | Complaint · Safety | Complete | 1 | $4,000 | Final order | 1910.37(a)(3) |
| 7 Dec 2023 | Referral · Safety | Partial | 2 (2 S/W/R) | $23,046 | Contested | 1910.28(b)(1)(i) (Serious), 1910.30(a)(1) (Serious) |
Most recent 25 of 116 inspections. 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 2024. The industry median is the median rate across establishments with at least 20,000 hours in NAICS 491 (quartiles 3.0–9.3); "overall" rates pool all hours and cases.
By year
| Year | Establishments | Employees | Hours | Deaths | Days away | Restricted/transfer | Other | TRC rate | DART rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 560 | 37,948 | 68,951,629 | 4 | 1080 | 667 | 281 | 5.9 | 5.1 |
| 2024 | 628 | 39,869 | 73,185,190 | 0 | 1158 | 806 | 541 | 6.8 | 5.4 |
Figures sum every establishment filed under this employer name in Texas. 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 491 | Texas | US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Back wages per case | $403 | $9,989 | $12K | $13K |
| Employees per case | 0.3 | — | 12.9 | 13.1 |
| Back wages per employee found due | $1,393 | — | $941 | $993 |
Acts
| Act | Violations | Back wages |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Medical Leave Act | 59 | $24,880 |
| Fair Labor Standards Act | 26 | $6,189 |
Cases
| Findings period | Violations | Back wages agreed | Employees | Penalties | Acts | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Jul 2025 – 14 Jul 2025 | 1 | $294 | 1 | — | Family and Medical Leave Act | Concluded |
| 15 Jul 2024 – 31 Dec 2024 | 0 | $0 | 0 | — | — | Concluded |
| 23 Aug 2022 – 22 Aug 2024 | 2 | $0 | 0 | — | Family and Medical Leave Act | Concluded |
| 1 Aug 2022 – 31 Jul 2024 | 0 | $0 | 0 | — | — | Concluded |
| 21 Jun 2022 – 20 Jun 2024 | 2 | $292 | 1 | — | Fair Labor Standards Act | Concluded |
| 2 Jun 2022 – 2 Jun 2024 | 1 | $0 | 0 | — | Family and Medical Leave Act | Concluded |
| 1 Jan 2023 – 18 Mar 2024 | 0 | $0 | 0 | — | — | Concluded |
| 12 Aug 2023 – 15 Oct 2023 | 0 | $0 | 0 | — | — | Concluded |
| 1 Feb 2023 – 1 Jun 2023 | 0 | $0 | 0 | — | — | Concluded |
| 15 May 2021 – 12 May 2023 | 0 | $0 | 0 | — | — | Concluded |
| 21 Jan 2021 – 20 Jan 2023 | 0 | $0 | 0 | — | — | Concluded |
| 20 Dec 2021 – 27 Jul 2022 | 0 | $0 | 0 | — | — | Concluded |
| 1 Apr 2020 – 31 Mar 2022 | 0 | $0 | 0 | — | — | Concluded |
| 10 Nov 2020 – 6 Jan 2022 | 0 | $0 | 0 | — | — | Concluded |
| 3 Dec 2021 – 31 Dec 2021 | 1 | $0 | 0 | — | Fair Labor Standards Act | Concluded |
| 1 Jun 2021 – 10 Nov 2021 | 1 | $0 | 0 | — | Family and Medical Leave Act | Concluded |
| 19 Sep 2019 – 18 Sep 2021 | 0 | $0 | 0 | — | — | Concluded |
| 22 May 2021 – 22 May 2021 | 2 | $0 | 0 | — | Family and Medical Leave Act | Concluded |
| 19 Dec 2020 – 31 Jan 2021 | 1 | $0 | 0 | — | Fair Labor Standards Act | Concluded |
| 2 Apr 2020 – 31 Dec 2020 | 1 | $1,704 | 1 | — | — | Concluded |
Most recent 20 of 114 cases. Every case in the WHD file is concluded; the file does not record whether back wages were subsequently paid. Case IDs: 2006949, 1995885, 1994450, 1995087, 1991166, ….
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 Texas 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 US Postal Service?
Yes. OSHA records 116 inspections at US Postal Service sites in Texas since 2016, most recently opened 1 Sep 2026.
Were there penalties, and are they final?
79 citations with current penalties totalling $468,973. 36 inspections have a final order on every citation, 13 have a contested citation and 77 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 US Postal Service?
The Wage and Hour Division's concluded cases record $45,966 in back wages agreed to pay across 114 cases, for 33 employees.
Does US Postal Service sponsor H-1B workers, and at what wages?
No labor condition application from US Postal Service in Texas 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 US Postal Service sponsor green cards (PERM)?
No PERM application from the employer appears in the fiscal years covered.
Does US Postal Service 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 US Postal Service?
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 States Postal Service; WHD: USPS; ITA: US Postal Service). 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.