Is my contractor safe to hire?
Run a free contractor safety check against federal OSHA inspection records. Get an A–F contractor safety grade, full OSHA inspection history, and a plain-English violation summary — in seconds, no signup.
Free contractor violation search. No account. Results in seconds.
Data sourced directly from OSHA & U.S. Department of Labor enforcement records
Instant A–F scorecard with no signup, no email, no credit card
Median search-to-scorecard latency — results before you can re-read the bid
How the contractor safety check works
Three steps between a stack of bids and an informed hire.
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Search the OSHA database
Type a contractor name or DOL establishment ID. Our OSHA violation lookup matches across prior names, DBAs, and FEIN reuse — citations don’t disappear when a company renames.
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See the safety grade
A single A–F contractor safety grade summarizes OSHA inspection history, serious violations, willful citations, repeat offenses, and total penalties — benchmarked against other contractors in the same trade and state.
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Hire a safe contractor
If the scorecard surfaces a red flag, unlock the $9.99 detailed PDF: every inspection, every citation, abatement status, and a plain-English contractor OSHA record you can attach to a bid comparison.
Why a contractor OSHA record matters
Reviews show the finish.
OSHA records show the jobsite.
Yelp, Google, HomeAdvisor, and Angi tell you what the contractor's last kitchen looked like. They tell you nothing about whether crews use fall protection, whether the company has been cited for willful OSHA violations, or whether someone died on a previous roof. To hire a safe contractor you need the safety record, not just the star rating.
That contractor violation search data is federal, public, and free — it just sits in 3.5 GB of raw OSHA CSV downloads that nobody outside compliance teams knows how to read. SafeCheck does the reading and turns it into a homeowner-ready contractor safety check.
What your OSHA violation lookup includes
- Full OSHA inspection history with dates and outcomes
- Serious, willful, and repeat OSHA violation counts
- Total OSHA penalties assessed against the contractor
- Trade benchmark (e.g. “safer than 73% of roofers in TX”)
- Prior-name aliases so renamed contractors don't hide their record
- Last inspection date — and a fresh on-demand scrape when data is stale
Pricing
Free for the decision most homeowners need. Pay only when you want the full record.
Free Scorecard
Homeowners checking one or two bids
- • A–F safety grade
- • Inspection & citation counts
- • Trade + state benchmark
- • Shareable scorecard URL
Detailed PDF Report
When the scorecard shows a red flag and you need the full picture
- • Every inspection, every citation
- • Abatement status & penalty history
- • Plain-English per-inspection summary
- • Emailed PDF — keep for your records
GC Subscription
General contractors vetting subs at volume
- • Unlimited detailed reports
- • Bulk lookups & CSV export
- • Watchlists for active subs
- • Priority support
Contractor safety check FAQ
- What is an OSHA violation lookup?
- An OSHA violation lookup is a search of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s public enforcement records — inspections, citations, penalties, and accident reports tied to a specific employer. SafeCheck packages that contractor OSHA record into a free A–F safety scorecard a homeowner can actually read.
- Where does the contractor safety data come from?
- Public OSHA and U.S. Department of Labor enforcement records — inspections, violations, penalties, and accident reports published through the DOL Enforcement Data Catalog. We re-import on a regular schedule and trigger an on-demand scrape when a contractor’s record is older than 90 days.
- What does the A–F contractor safety grade mean?
- The contractor safety grade summarizes OSHA inspection volume, serious-vs-willful violation mix, repeat-offender history, total penalties, and recency. The same algorithm is applied to every contractor, then percentile-ranked against peers in the same trade (NAICS code) and state — so a roofer is compared to roofers, not to general contractors.
- What if my contractor has no OSHA record?
- We show "no record found" with confidence notes — not a passing grade. No OSHA record can mean a clean operator, a small sole proprietor below OSHA reporting thresholds, or a recently-renamed company we haven’t linked yet. The scorecard explains which is likely so you still know if your contractor is safe.
- Can a contractor hide a bad safety record by renaming?
- Not in our contractor violation search. Entity resolution is the core technical bet: we merge records by FEIN, DOL establishment ID, and curated alias maps so prior names surface when the current name is searched. Name-and-state alone never auto-merges, to avoid false positives.
- How do I check my contractor’s OSHA inspection history?
- Type the contractor’s name (and optionally a state) into the search box above. SafeCheck pulls the full OSHA inspection history, summarizes the contractor OSHA record into an A–F grade, and shows the underlying citations and penalties. For the full PDF report with every line item, unlock it for $9.99.
- Is SafeCheck affiliated with OSHA?
- No. SafeCheck is an independent OSHA violation lookup tool. We don’t warrant the accuracy of OSHA records and we aren’t affiliated with OSHA or the U.S. Department of Labor.
- Do I need an account to run a contractor safety check?
- No. The free contractor safety check requires no signup. The $9.99 PDF report captures an email at Stripe checkout so we can deliver the PDF — that’s it.