The OSHA file,
before you quote the account.

Enter the employer’s name into the Native Base OSHA inspection lookup. It searches the US Department of Labor’s enforcement data for federal OSHA inspections matching that establishment name and returns each inspection with its date, type and scope, the violations cited (classified serious, willful, repeat or other-than-serious), and the initial and current penalty amounts.

OSHA violations are one of the few public, objective signals of how an employer actually manages workplace safety — the thing workers’ comp underwriting prices. A recent willful or repeat violation is a red flag on loss control; a clean record across inspections supports a better story. Producers also use fresh citations as an opening: an employer that just took an OSHA penalty is often reviewing its safety program, its broker, and its mod all at once.

Three common reasons. First, the search matches the establishment name as OSHA recorded it, which may differ from the trade name — try a shorter fragment. Second, about half the states run their own OSHA-approved state plans (California, Washington, Michigan and others), and their inspections are enforced by the state agency — the federal dataset’s coverage of state-plan activity varies. Third, very recent inspections may not have flowed into the published dataset yet.

A serious violation means the hazard could cause death or serious physical harm and the employer should have known about it. A willful violation means the employer knowingly ignored the requirement — these carry the largest penalties. A repeat violation means the same or a substantially similar condition was cited within the previous five years. Other-than-serious covers violations with a direct relationship to safety that are unlikely to cause serious harm.

From the US Department of Labor’s open enforcement data — the official federal record of OSHA inspections and citations, refreshed daily by DOL. Native Base queries it live; nothing is scraped from the OSHA website.