ViolationPulse

Data

Public enforcement data. Built for action.

ViolationPulse is built on official enforcement data from four federal agencies: OSHA, MSHA, EPA and FMCSA. This page explains exactly what comes from the government, what comes from us, and what the limits are.

Government data

Retrieved from each agency's own official data service. We store it with its source and the date we retrieved it.

  • Inspection number and activity identifiers
  • Establishment name and site address
  • City, state, ZIP and NAICS industry code
  • Inspection type, scope and open date
  • Case status and closing dates
  • Cited standards and violation classification
  • Initial, current and proposed penalty amounts
  • Abatement due dates and completion codes
  • Mine operators, mine IDs and MSHA citations
  • EPA and state inspections, violations and enforcement actions
  • FMCSA roadside inspection totals and out-of-service orders

ViolationPulse intelligence

Produced by us. None of it comes from an agency, and none of it should be read as a government determination.

  • Opportunity Score and its individual factors
  • Service category matching
  • Plain-language summaries
  • Company and contact enrichment
  • Detection timestamps and change history
  • Pipeline stages and campaign activity

Four agencies, one feed

What we read from each, where it comes from, and how late it arrives.

OSHA

Workplace inspections, citations, standards cited and penalties, anywhere in the country.

The U.S. Department of Labor's Open Data API.

Synced nightly. An inspection usually appears within a week of opening; its citation, months later.

MSHA

Inspections of mines, quarries and sand and gravel pits, which OSHA does not cover, with every citation and the penalty MSHA proposed.

MSHA's own open government data files.

MSHA publishes weekly; we check nightly. MSHA cites during the visit; its penalty follows weeks later.

EPA

Hazardous waste (RCRA), air and water inspections, violations and enforcement actions by EPA and the states it tracks, and EPA's formal cases under every statute.

EPA's Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO): its case service and its weekly data files.

Cases nightly, the rest weekly. EPA's records arrive weeks to months after the event. Shown to firms whose services they concern.

FMCSA

Roadside inspections of trucks and buses, added up per carrier and month, and orders that take a carrier off the road. Carriers with two power units or more; no person's details.

The U.S. Department of Transportation's open data portal.

Published daily; synced nightly. Shown to firms that sell DOT compliance.

How current is it?

An honest answer matters more than a marketing one.

Early detection is degraded right now. Early detection is behind: no newly opened inspection has reached us for 22 days. The nightly Department of Labor sync is the first thing to check, and this notice clears itself on the first night it brings new inspections back. The osha.gov inspection listing we also read has refused automated requests since 4 September; we do not work around that, and it resumes on its own when access returns.

Publication lag is real, and we measured it. Citations reach the public dataset roughly a month after they are issued. In our September 2026 measurement across 8,731 real citations, the most recent one available had been issued 33 days earlier, and a filter for the previous seven days returned nothing at all. ViolationPulse is not a real-time alerting service, and we will not describe it as one. Every record shows both the government date it carries and the date we first observed it.

Records change. Open cases can be corrected, contested, reduced or closed after publication. We keep every version we receive and surface the changes rather than silently overwriting them.

Every record links to its source. Each signal carries a link to the official record so you are never locked into our interpretation.

What ViolationPulse is not

  • Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by OSHA, MSHA, EPA, FMCSA, the U.S. Department of Labor or the U.S. Department of Transportation.
  • Not a source of legal advice.
  • Not a compliance certification service.
  • Not a source of official agency determinations.
  • Not an underwriting system.

This product uses the DOL Data API, MSHA's open government data, EPA's ECHO data and the U.S. Department of Transportation's open data portal, but is not endorsed or certified by any of them. Federal agency data is generally in the public domain; attribution is given here and throughout the product.