Methodology
The fiscal 2025 enforcement figures are read from OSHA’s Industry Profile for an OSHA Standard and Frequently Cited OSHA Standards tools on 22 September 2026, when both covered federal citations issued from 1 October 2024 to 30 September 2025. OSHA’s definitions count a citation each time a standard is cited, an inspection each time it is cited at least once in an inspection, and penalties at their current amounts after any settlement. The tools show only the latest complete fiscal year, so their pages will show fiscal 2026 once OSHA loads it, and this page will be updated then. Archived copies of every table used here, captured on 22 September 2026: sectors, subsectors, industry groups, all standards, under 100 employees, under 20, 100 to 249, 250 or more, NAICS 31, NAICS 32, NAICS 33, definitions.
The Top 10 counts are violations on OSHA’s preliminary lists, a different extract with a shorter window, so they are not compared with the fiscal 2025 citation counts. The final-list positions are read from OSHA’s own Top 10 page as the Internet Archive captured it each year. All figures are federal OSHA only; State Plan citations are not included. A citation count reflects where and how often OSHA inspected, not just conditions on worksites.
MapTrack calculations are shown with their arithmetic on each card. OSHA’s estimate of injuries prevented is a projection made when the standard was written in 1989, not a count of injuries, and the effectiveness figures are from the data OSHA’s 2000 review relied on.
