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AMES CONSTRUCTION, INC.
$24,000
penalties
2
viol.
3
insp.

AMES CONSTRUCTION, INC.

10998 189TH STREET, COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA 51503NAICS 236220 Commercial and Institutional Building Construction

Inspections
3
Jun 2020 to Feb 2023 · 3 safety, 0 health
Violations
2
across 3 inspections
Penalties on record
$24,000
latest amounts in DOL records
By classification
Serious 0Willful 0Repeat 0Other 2

Having inspection records is common for businesses in regulated industries. Data and methodology

Inspection records

Feb 27, 2023Unprogrammed Related (G) · Partial scope, Safety#346532278$00 viol.

Inspection #346532278

Dates

Opened
Feb 27, 2023
Closing Conference Date
May 23, 2023
Closed
May 31, 2023

Inspection

Advance Notice
No
Owner Type
Private
Union Status
Yes
Number of Employees
60

Violations and Penalties

Total Violations
0
Initial Penalties
$0
Penalties on Record
$0
Site Address
416 Benson Street, Council Bluffs, IA 51501
Industry
236220 Commercial and Institutional Building Construction

Unprogrammed Related Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as an unprogrammed related inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data. The public DOL category label is preserved here without adding extra interpretation beyond the government label.

May 23, 2022Referral (C) · Partial scope, Safety#345977425$15,0001 viol.

Inspection #345977425

Dates

Opened
May 23, 2022
Closing Conference Date
Jun 8, 2022
Final Order
Sep 23, 2022
Closed
Nov 8, 2022

Inspection

Advance Notice
No
Owner Type
Private
Union Status
Yes
Number of Employees
4,000
Related Activity
1 referral

Violations and Penalties

Total Violations
1
Violation Types
1 other-than-serious
Initial Penalties
$12,288
Penalties on Record
$15,000
Site Address
416 Benson Street, Council Bluffs, IA 51501
Industry
236220 Commercial and Institutional Building Construction

Referral Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as a referral inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data. Referral inspections can result from another agency, another OSHA activity, or another source referring a potential hazard to OSHA.

Violations

Violation list (1 of 1 shown)
CitationStandardTypeInstancesExposedInitialCurrentAbatementContestFinal Order
0100188.4
OSHA citation code: 88.4 - CODE OF IOWA (2021)
Other11$12,288$15,000Nov 18, 2022-Sep 23, 2022
Jun 2, 2020Referral (C) · Partial scope, Safety#344771167$9,0001 viol.

Inspection #344771167

Dates

Opened
Jun 2, 2020
Closing Conference Date
Jun 2, 2020
Final Order
Oct 16, 2020
Closed
Oct 29, 2020

Inspection

Advance Notice
No
Owner Type
Private
Union Status
Yes
Number of Employees
62
Related Activity
1 referral

Violations and Penalties

Total Violations
1
Violation Types
1 other-than-serious
Initial Penalties
$8,524
Penalties on Record
$9,000
Site Address
10998 189th Street, Council Bluffs, IA 51503
Industry
236220 Commercial and Institutional Building Construction

Referral Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as a referral inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data. Referral inspections can result from another agency, another OSHA activity, or another source referring a potential hazard to OSHA.

Incident Investigation Summaries

Incident investigation summaries linked to this inspection through OSHA's accident and injury enforcement data. These summaries describe the reported incident. The enforcement outcome for the linked inspection is in the inspection details above.

HospitalizationMay 28, 2020

Employee suffers laceration to hand from contact with sprayi

Event: Struck By

Violations

Violation list (1 of 1 shown)
CitationStandardTypeInstancesExposedInitialCurrentAbatementContestFinal Order
010011910.147
Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout)
OSHA citation code: 19100147 C04 I
Other12$8,524$9,000Oct 21, 2020-Oct 16, 2020
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About these records

A company page groups inspections with the same normalized employer name, city and state; it is not a legal-entity identifier (how pages are grouped).

This page displays public OSHA enforcement data. Status text follows the DOL inspection record first and may include citation-level context when the inspection feed and citation records are out of sync. Penalty amounts shown reflect the latest penalty amounts on record in the DOL database and may differ from initial assessments or final amounts. This is not an official OSHA resource.

OSHA's public enforcement data does not publish a "guilty" or "not guilty" field for inspections. The closest outcome fields available are the citation counts, penalty amounts, contest dates, final-order dates, and the inspection close date shown on this page. How to interpret these status fields. How initial and current penalties are recorded.

OSHA may publish multiple citation rows in the same inspection with the same standard and penalty fields. Separate rows can still differ in OSHA metadata such as citation identifier, recorded instance count, exposed workers, or gravity value. Contest and Final Order columns show citation-level dates from OSHA's enforcement record. A dash means OSHA's record does not currently show that activity for the citation.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor OSHA incident investigation data (`osha_accident` + `osha_accident_injury`). Linked via `rel_insp_nr` to the inspection activity number (exact government key). Injury, body part, source and event values are OSHA's own codes. OSHA states that these fields are not coded according to the requirements under the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System (OIICS). Only the values present in the OSHA record are listed; an incident with no value that resolves in OSHA's code table shows "Injury details not recorded". Where a record covers several people, each field lists every value recorded across them.

Understanding These Penalties

The maximum penalty for a serious violation in 2025 is $16,550 per violation. For willful violations, the range is $11,823 to $165,514. The current penalty column shows the latest amount on record in OSHA's database for each citation. When the current penalty differs from the initial penalty, OSHA's records show that the amount changed during the enforcement process, but this page does not determine the specific reason for each change. Penalty amounts are set by OSHA and adjusted annually for inflation.

Standards cited

1910.147Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout)1 citation · $9,000
88.41 citation · $15,000

Industry comparison

Violations per inspection
This employer0.7
Industry average1.5
Penalties per inspection
This employer$8,000
Industry average$1,290

Construction of Buildings, 209,253 employers with OSHA inspections. Arithmetic from DOL records.

BLS 2024 survey: nonresidential building construction reported 1.9 injuries and illnesses per 100 full-time workers (total recordable cases, national, private industry; relative standard error 6.8%; NAICS 2362 level). This is an industry-wide average from a federal survey, not a measurement of this establishment. Source

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