Across 26 OSHA standards and 56 states and territories, 206,945 citations are attributed to a state. Illinois leads with 12,626, at an average initial penalty of $5,673 per citation.
| # | State | Citations | Avg penalty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Illinois | 12,626 | $5,673 |
| 2 | Texas | 11,429 | $7,095 |
| 3 | Maryland | 10,763 | $677 |
| 4 | Michigan | 10,576 | $1,280 |
| 5 | New York | 9,743 | $3,823 |
| 6 | Ohio | 9,240 | $8,032 |
| 7 | Tennessee | 9,109 | $882 |
| 8 | Virginia | 8,388 | $3,222 |
| 9 | Florida | 8,101 | $5,930 |
| 10 | New Jersey | 7,786 | $6,813 |
| 11 | North Carolina | 7,689 | $2,655 |
| 12 | Pennsylvania | 7,403 | $4,920 |
| 13 | Wisconsin | 7,378 | $6,212 |
| 14 | Oregon | 6,074 | $1,183 |
| 15 | Connecticut | 5,964 | $1,987 |
| 16 | Massachusetts | 5,938 | $5,867 |
| 17 | California | 5,137 | $1,314 |
| 18 | Minnesota | 4,964 | $2,203 |
| 19 | Georgia | 4,908 | $4,959 |
| 20 | Puerto Rico | 3,786 | $2,584 |
| 21 | Missouri | 3,402 | $6,913 |
| 22 | Colorado | 3,379 | $4,954 |
| 23 | Alabama | 3,258 | $4,547 |
| 24 | Nevada | 2,994 | $6,200 |
| 25 | Kentucky | 2,973 | $4,121 |
| 26 | Kansas | 2,351 | $5,779 |
| 27 | Arizona | 2,320 | $2,371 |
| 28 | Maine | 2,237 | $3,282 |
| 29 | Indiana | 2,227 | $2,544 |
| 30 | Utah | 2,099 | $1,575 |
| 31 | Iowa | 1,911 | $5,159 |
| 32 | Hawaii | 1,692 | $2,270 |
| 33 | Rhode Island | 1,665 | $4,792 |
| 34 | Oklahoma | 1,643 | $6,739 |
| 35 | Nebraska | 1,491 | $6,737 |
| 36 | Alaska | 1,371 | $4,961 |
| 37 | South Dakota | 1,270 | $4,833 |
| 38 | South Carolina | 1,210 | $1,555 |
| 39 | Idaho | 1,129 | $3,751 |
| 40 | Delaware | 1,034 | $7,333 |
| 41 | New Hampshire | 1,032 | $5,723 |
| 42 | New Mexico | 988 | $6,307 |
| 43 | Mississippi | 880 | $4,845 |
| 44 | Louisiana | 783 | $7,127 |
| 45 | Arkansas | 705 | $9,896 |
| 46 | Vermont | 696 | $3,741 |
| 47 | North Dakota | 642 | $9,972 |
| 48 | Montana | 461 | $4,162 |
| 49 | West Virginia | 433 | $4,472 |
| 50 | Virgin Islands | 415 | $1,917 |
| 51 | Guam | 324 | $6,643 |
| 52 | Wyoming | 322 | $4,360 |
| 53 | District of Columbia | 248 | $3,001 |
| 54 | Washington | 176 | $1,442 |
| 55 | American Samoa | 118 | $9,655 |
| 56 | Northern Mariana Islands | 64 | $3,291 |
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These are citations, not inspections. One inspection can produce several citations under the same standard, so this describes enforcement activity rather than the number of employers inspected. Penalties are initial proposed amounts, which are frequently reduced in settlement, so read them as exposure rather than as money collected.
About 93.2% of the citations we track carry a state in the source records, so the state totals here sum to 206,945 rather than the full 222,130. We show the covered figure rather than spreading the remainder across states to make the numbers tie out.
We pull the full public dataset from the US Department of Labor, join violations to inspections, and aggregate it ourselves. Our editorial and data standards page explains the process, and the standards leaderboard ranks the same data by regulation instead of by state. If a number here looks wrong, tell us and we will check it against the source.
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