BUDGET TOWING
1145 HOMER AVE, ST PAUL, MN 55116 · NAICS 488410 Motor Vehicle Towing
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Inspection records
Jul 18, 2012#316607209Jul 18, 2012Follow-Up (F) · Partial scope, Safety#316607209$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #316607209
Dates
- Opened
- Jul 18, 2012
- Closing Conference Date
- Jul 18, 2012
- Closed
- Apr 15, 2016
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 15
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 1145 Homer Street, St Paul, MN 55116
- Industry
- 488410 Motor Vehicle Towing
Follow-Up Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as a follow-up inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data. Follow-up inspections are used by OSHA after earlier enforcement activity and can be used to check later compliance status.
Apr 11, 2012#316471002Apr 11, 2012Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Safety#316471002$1,3752 viol.2 violations$1,375 in penalties
Inspection #316471002
Dates
- Opened
- Apr 11, 2012
- Closing Conference Date
- Apr 13, 2012
- Closed
- Apr 15, 2016
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 15
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 2
- Violation Types
- 2 serious
- Initial Penalties
- $1,375
- Penalties on Record
- $1,375
- Site Address
- 1145 Homer Street, St Paul, MN 55116
- Industry
- 488410 Motor Vehicle Towing
Complaint Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as a complaint inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data. OSHA can open complaint-driven inspections after receiving safety or health complaints from workers or their representatives.
Violations
Violation list (2 of 2 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 182065302 | Serious | 1 | 1 | $1,125 | $1,125 | Jun 4, 2012 | - | - |
| 01002 | 182065308 | Serious | 1 | 8 | $250 | $250 | Jul 1, 2012 | - | - |
Failure to Abate Penalties1 citation, $1,800 in FTA penalties on record
OSHA's enforcement record shows Failure to Abate (FTA) activity recorded against 1 citation issued in this inspection. An FTA penalty is assessed during a follow-up inspection when OSHA's records indicate a previously cited hazard was not corrected by the abatement date. Each row below shows the FTA fields published on the original citation record: the follow-up inspection number, the FTA issuance date, the FTA penalty amount, and any FTA contest or final order date on record.
| Citation | FTA Inspection | FTA Issuance | FTA Penalty | FTA Contest | FTA Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01002 | #316607209 | Aug 1, 2012 | $1,800 | - | - |
Jun 6, 2005#309160711Jun 6, 2005FatalityAccident (A) · Partial scope, SafetyFatality#309160711$26,2504 viol.4 violations$26,250 in penalties
Inspection #309160711
Dates
- Opened
- Jun 6, 2005
- Closing Conference Date
- Jul 20, 2005
- Contested
- Nov 10, 2005
- Closed
- Apr 21, 2016
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 17
- Related Activity
- 1 accident
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 4
- Violation Types
- 3 serious, 1 other-than-serious
- Initial Penalties
- $28,100
- Penalties on Record
- $26,250
- Site Address
- 1145 Homer Ave, St Paul, MN 55116
- Industry
- 488410 Motor Vehicle Towing
Accident Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as an accident inspection in the U.S. Department of Labor OSHA enforcement data. Employers must report work-related fatalities within 8 hours, and work-related inpatient hospitalizations, amputations, or losses of an eye within 24 hours. An accident-related inspection does not by itself determine fault.
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.
Mechanic is killed when crushed by truck bed
Enforcement Outcome
Citation contest activity appears on Nov 10, 2005. Final orders are recorded through Feb 8, 2008. Penalty changes shown on this page reflect the latest amounts published in OSHA's enforcement data.
Violations
Violation list (4 of 4 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 1910.147 Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout) OSHA citation code: 19100147 C04 I | Serious | 1 | 1 | $1,050 | $525 | Nov 23, 2005 | Nov 10, 2005 | Feb 8, 2008 |
| 01002 | 1910.147 Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout) OSHA citation code: 19100147 C07 I | Serious | 1 | 1 | $1,050 | $525 | Sep 20, 2005 | Nov 10, 2005 | Feb 8, 2008 |
| 01003 | 5205.670 | Serious | 1 | 1 | $25,000 | $25,000 | Oct 31, 2005 | - | - |
| 02001 | 1904.29 Forms OSHA citation code: 19040029 A | Other | 1 | 17 | $1,000 | $200 | Sep 20, 2005 | Nov 10, 2005 | Feb 8, 2008 |
Penalty amounts may differ from final amounts after settlement or judicial review. How to read these records
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.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor OSHA enforcement data, violations table fields fta_insp_nr, fta_issuance_date, fta_penalty, fta_contest_date, fta_final_order_date. The FTA follow-up inspection is linked via fta_insp_nr to the inspection activity number (exact government key). When the follow-up inspection is not currently on record in SafetyRecord, the inspection number is shown without a link.
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.
3 inspections, 2005 to 2012. Each row is one inspection; point at or tap a row for its dates and totals.
Source: DOL OSHA enforcement data (inspections and violations), linked via activity_nr (exact government key).
Penalty changes: Amounts shown reflect what OSHA's enforcement record publishes. The reason for any change is not stated unless OSHA's record explicitly says so.
Standards cited
Industry comparison
Support Activities for Transportation, 10,158 employers with OSHA inspections. Arithmetic from DOL records.
BLS 2024 survey: motor vehicle towing reported 2.3 injuries and illnesses per 100 full-time workers (total recordable cases, national, private industry; relative standard error 40.4%; NAICS 48841 level). This is an industry-wide average from a federal survey, not a measurement of this establishment. Source