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The Top 10 OSHA Penalties of 2025

These are the companies that have had to pay the largest fines so far this year

August 21, 2025

These examples of OSHA violations represent the top 10 penalties for 2025, as well as the price of not complying and how to adjust.

In First-of-its-Kind Move, OSHA Settles With Amazon Over Hazardous Working Conditions

Amazon to pay $145K over multiple ergonomics cases in agency’s largest multi-site investigation in over a decade

ISHN Staff

December 20, 2024

Amazon will have to pay $145K over multiple ergonomics cases causing serious musculoskeletal injuries in OSHA’s largest multi-site investigation in over a decade.

Feds investigating major chemical fire at Bio-Lab Facility in Conyers, GA

ISHN Staff

October 3, 2024

The owner of a Georgia chemical plant that had a massive chemical fire has been cited and fined repeatedly by the federal government, mostly for violations related to employees not receiving proper safety training.

Wisconsin roofing contractor fined $180k for repeatedly failing to protect workers from deadly fall hazards

ISHN Staff

November 28, 2023

Inspectors witnessed employees and subcontractors lacking fall protection on multiple occasions and two separate sites.

OSHA finds 3M responsible in worker death at manufacturing plant

Company fined more than $300K for preventable workplace fatality

Benita Mehta

November 10, 2023

The agency determined the 3M Company violated federal regulations for the control of hazardous energy during set-up, servicing and operation of the machine.

Mars Wrigley fined after workers fall into vat of chocolate

February 14, 2023

Federal workplace safety authorities have fined a central Pennsylvania confectionary factory more than $14,500 following an accident last year in which two workers fell into a vat of chocolate.

Alabama, Georgia inspections show Dollar General continues to ignore workplace safety, putting employees’ safety at risk

Recent investigations total more than $1M in penalties; $3.6M proposed penalties since 2016

March 3, 2022

A series of federal workplace safety and health inspections at four Dollar General stores in Alabama and Georgia in the summer of 2021 found the nationwide discount retailer’s long history of exposing employees to dangerous working conditions continues.

Tootsie Roll machine cuts off part of worker's finger

October 7, 2021

OSHA has recommended that Tootsie Roll Industries pay more than $136,000 in fines after a machine at its Chicago plant cut off part of an employee’s finger this year, according to The Associated Press.

OSHA proposes $1.3M fines after construction worker deaths in Boston

August 19, 2021

Federal workplace safety regulators on Wednesday, August 18, 2021, proposed $1.3 million in penalties for the construction company that employed two men who died when they were struck by a dump truck and pushed into a 9-foot (2.75-meter) deep trench at a sewer project in Boston in February, according to the Associated Press.

Georgia chicken plant faces $1M OSHA fines over workers' deaths, injuries

July 29, 2021

A North Georgia chicken plant and its associated companies face $1 million in fines and dozens of citations from OSHA over the deaths of six workers and injuries of a dozen in a nitrogen accident in January.