OSHARecord — US Workplace Safety & OSHA Violation Records
Millions of federal safety inspections turned into employer profiles anyone can search, grade and compare.
What OSHARecord is
OSHA enforcement records are technically public — in practice they live in bulk files full of agency codes, with no employer-centric view. OSHARecord compiles that inspection and citation data into a searchable database wrapped in editorial guidance, so enforcement patterns can be explored without misreading what the numbers actually say. The site's own tagline sums it up: OSHA enforcement data, made accessible.
This one is entirely my own product: concept, data model, code and search-engine strategy, end to end.
Core features
- Company search. Inspection and citation histories for specific employers and establishments, grouped into company profiles.
- Safety Score tool. An instant employer safety grade derived from violations, penalties and inspection history.
- Location filters. Enforcement activity sliced by state, city or ZIP code.
- Violation classes. Browsing by classification: serious, willful, repeat, or other-than-serious.
- Industry rankings. Benchmarks across the 248 industries in the index.
- Editorial layer. Pillar articles and blog posts on interpreting enforcement data responsibly.
Scale of the dataset
Straight from the site's homepage counters: 5,161,396 inspections indexed, 606,141 company profiles, $6.8B in total penalties tracked, 248 industries and 52 states and territories. Everything is sourced from U.S. Department of Labor OSHA enforcement data.
See it live: Visit osharecord.com
Under the hood
No CMS, no theme, no plugins — a custom Laravel + PHP application with Livewire powering the real-time company search, backed by a MySQL database tuned to serve hundreds of thousands of inspection and employer pages quickly.
The growth engine is programmatic SEO: every inspection, company and industry gets its own indexable page, with metadata and internal links generated at scale rather than written by hand.
What this build proves
- Scale: multi-million-row government dumps reshaped into 600,000+ browsable employer pages.
- Performance: live search that stays responsive across 5.1 million inspection records.
- Zero-ad acquisition: the programmatic pages bring the audience in on their own.
FAQ
Where does OSHARecord get its data?
From the U.S. Department of Labor's public OSHA enforcement releases, which the platform ingests and reorganizes into searchable company safety profiles.
What does the Safety Score tool do?
It condenses an employer's OSHA violations, penalties and inspection history into an instant safety grade, so a record can be read at a glance.
How big is the dataset behind the site?
Over 5.1 million inspections indexed, more than 606,000 company profiles, 248 industries, and coverage across 52 US states and territories.
Who is OSHARecord aimed at?
Journalists, researchers, workers and safety professionals who need an employer's enforcement history without wrestling with raw government data dumps.