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OSHA: 39 insp.Injuries: 2 yrLabor: 8 casesImmigration: no recordContracts: not listed
The federal record for US Postal Service, Norfolk, Virginia, consists of 39 OSHA inspections, 8 concluded Wage and Hour Division cases and 2 years of injury summaries; the employer is classified under Postal Service.
OSHA opened 39 inspections at US Postal Service sites in Virginia since 2016, issuing 62 citations, 39 of them classified serious, willful or repeat. Current penalties total $396,541 (initially $918,959), $10K per inspection, above the national figure of $3,754. 2 inspections have at least one contested citation.
On its 2024 Form 300A summary the employer reported 12,425 employees and 626 recordable cases, a total recordable case rate of 5.1 per 100 full-time workers, lower than the pooled rate for its industry (6.4; median establishment 5.8).
The Wage and Hour Division concluded 8 compliance actions involving US Postal Service, recording $2,174 in back wages agreed to pay for 3 employees, under the Family and Medical Leave Act.
Is this the same company? The sources spell the name differently and were matched by normalised name and state: OSHA: U.S. Postal Service; WHD: U.S. Postal Service; 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 | Virginia | US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citations per inspection | 1.6 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 1.9 |
| Current penalty per inspection | $10K | $3,498 | $3,304 | $3,754 |
| Share of inspections with a contested citation | 5% | — | 6% | 8% |
| Share of inspections with final orders on every citation | 67% | — | 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
| Standard | Subject | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| 1910.1200 | Hazard communication | 12 |
| 1910.178 | Powered industrial trucks | 9 |
| 1910.141 | Sanitation | 6 |
| 1910.305 | Electrical, wiring methods, components and equipment | 6 |
| 1910.303 | Electrical, general requirements | 4 |
| 1926.1101 | Asbestos | 4 |
| 1910.151 | Medical services and first aid | 3 |
| 5(a)(1) | General Duty Clause | 3 |
| 1910.157 | Portable fire extinguishers | 2 |
| 1904.32 | Annual summary (recordkeeping) | 2 |
| 1904.40 | Providing records to government representatives | 2 |
| 1910.37 | Maintenance, safeguards and operational features for exit routes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 Jan 2024 | Complaint · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 19 Dec 2023 | Complaint · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 1 Jun 2023 | Complaint · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 23 May 2023 | Complaint · Safety | Partial | 1 | $7,513 | Contested, final order | 1910.178(m)(1) |
| 4 May 2023 | Complaint · Health | Partial | 1 | $7,367 | Final order | 1910.141(a)(3) |
| 7 Mar 2023 | Complaint · Health | Partial | 3 (2 S/W/R) | $446 | Final order | 1910.151(c), 1910.1200(e)(1)(i) (Repeat), 1910.1200(g)(8) (Repeat) |
| 21 Feb 2023 | Complaint · Safety | Partial | 1 (1 S/W/R) | $446 | Final order | 1910.157(e)(2) (Repeat) |
| 30 Aug 2022 | Complaint · Health | Partial | 4 (3 S/W/R) | $9,821 | Contested, final order | 1910.141(b)(1)(i) (Serious), 1910.141(d)(2)(ii), 1910.1200(e)(1)(i) (Serious), 1910.1200(g)(8) (Serious) |
| 17 Mar 2022 | Complaint · Health | Partial | 5 (5 S/W/R) | $61,948 | Final order | 1910.151(c) (Serious), 1910.1200(e)(1)(i) (Serious), 1910.1200(f)(6)(ii) (Repeat), 1910.1200(g)(8) (Repeat), 1910.1200(h)(1) (Serious) |
| 13 Jan 2022 | Complaint · Health | Partial | 1 | $0 | Final order | 1910.305(a)(2)(ix) |
| 13 Dec 2021 | Complaint · Health | Partial | 2 (1 S/W/R) | $4,040 | Final order | 1910.141(d)(2)(iv) (Serious), 1910.151(b) |
| 28 Apr 2021 | Complaint · Health | Partial | 2 (2 S/W/R) | $5,851 | Final order | 1910.1200(f)(6)(ii) (Serious), 1910.1200(g)(8) (Serious) |
| 15 Apr 2021 | Complaint · Health | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 8 Apr 2021 | Complaint · Health | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 25 Mar 2021 | Complaint · Health | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 4 Feb 2021 | Complaint · Health | Partial | 1 | $1,951 | Final order | 1904.32(b)(2)(ii) |
| 20 Oct 2020 | Complaint · Health | Partial | 3 (1 S/W/R) | $9,639 | Final order | 1910.1200(h)(1), 1910.1200(f)(6), 1904.40(a) (Repeat) |
| 1 Oct 2020 | Referral · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 19 Feb 2020 | Referral · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 2 Dec 2019 | Complaint · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 9 Oct 2019 | Referral · Safety | Partial | 2 (2 S/W/R) | $5,783 | Final order | 1910.303(b)(2) (Serious), 1910.305(g)(1)(iv) (Serious) |
| 28 Aug 2019 | Referral · Safety | Partial | 4 | $2,757 | Final order | 1910.157(e)(2), 1904.32(b)(3), 1910.37(b)(5), 1904.40(a) |
| 27 Aug 2019 | Referral · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 5 Feb 2019 | Unprogrammed related · Safety | Partial | 2 (2 S/W/R) | $13,831 | Final order | 1910.178(m)(1) (Serious), 1910.178(l)(4)(ii)(b) (Repeat) |
| 18 Jan 2019 | Referral · Health | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed |
Most recent 25 of 39 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 | 237 | 13,212 | 25,059,201 | 0 | 559 | 111 | 102 | 6.2 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 246 | 12,425 | 24,767,878 | 1 | 418 | 129 | 78 | 5.1 | 4.4 |
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.
Back wages by year of case conclusion
Compared with state and nation
| Measure | This employer | NAICS 491 | Virginia | US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Back wages per case | $272 | $9,989 | $24K | $13K |
| Employees per case | 0.4 | — | 15.2 | 13.1 |
| Back wages per employee found due | $725 | — | $1,565 | $993 |
Acts
| Act | Violations | Back wages |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Medical Leave Act | 6 | $0 |
Cases
| Findings period | Violations | Back wages agreed | Employees | Penalties | Acts | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Apr 2020 – 9 Oct 2021 | 0 | $0 | 0 | — | — | Concluded |
| 20 Dec 2018 – 10 Dec 2020 | 3 | $410 | 2 | — | — | Concluded |
| 4 Dec 2020 – 6 Dec 2020 | 1 | $0 | 0 | — | Family and Medical Leave Act | Concluded |
| 31 Aug 2020 – 29 Sep 2020 | 1 | $1,764 | 1 | — | — | Concluded |
| 1 Jan 2012 – 12 Mar 2012 | 1 | $0 | 0 | — | Family and Medical Leave Act | Concluded |
| 5 Mar 2008 – 4 Mar 2010 | 1 | $0 | 0 | — | Family and Medical Leave Act | Concluded |
| 26 Jul 2009 – 22 Sep 2009 | 3 | $0 | 0 | — | Family and Medical Leave Act | Concluded |
| 24 Mar 2005 – 26 May 2005 | 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: 1942791, 1926997, 1934057, 1921997, 1648848, ….
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 US Postal Service?
Yes. OSHA records 39 inspections at US Postal Service sites in Virginia since 2016, most recently opened 25 Jan 2024.
Were there penalties, and are they final?
62 citations with current penalties totalling $396,541. 26 inspections have a final order on every citation, 2 have a contested citation and 13 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 $2,174 in back wages agreed to pay across 8 cases, for 3 employees.
Does US Postal Service sponsor H-1B workers, and at what wages?
No labor condition application from US Postal Service 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 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: U.S. Postal Service; WHD: U.S. Postal Service; 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.