The COVID Project
Context, not an orderThis record is guidance or an announcement kept for context. It is not counted among the orders in force.
The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States Department of Labor, OSHA (federal agency; enforcement record)
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- 29 U.S.C. 654(a)(1), 658, 666
- Issued
- 2021-12-31 Dec. 31, 2021
- Effective
- 2020-2023 (read as 2021-12-31)
- End
- Rolling
- In force
- Dec. 31, 2021 (no end date recorded; counted as in force for 120 days)
- Limitation types
- Health care ordersWorkplace rules
- Addressees
- more than 1,000 cited establishments (healthcare, nursing homes, meat and poultry, warehousing, retail, restaurants, manufacturing, construction)
- Functions reached
- EMP: the enforcement record showing the OSH Act was applied to COVID-19 hazards in every claim quarter
- IC
- OP reporting
- PF/WH
- Character
- context
- Collection
- Federal labor and immigration agencies AGY-FED-LABOR-IMMIGRATION
Operative words
Establishment... Total Initial Penalty... [columns listing citations under] 1910.134(c)(1); 1910.134(a)(1); 1910.134(e)(1); 1910.134(f)(2); 1910.132(d)(2); 1910.134(a)(2); 1910.134(m)(1); 1904.39... 5(a)(1) (representative rows)
Enforcement
Proposed penalties listed per establishment (1,015 penalty rows in the rendered page)
Notes
The agency's own enforcement record; use for the proposition that federal workplace law was enforced against COVID-19 hazards in 2020 Q2 through 2021 Q3 and beyond.
Retrieval note79-page render of the live page on Sept. 26, 2026; the date in the file name is a nominal end-of-period date, not an issue date.