HARVARD UNIVERSITY
1350 MASS. AVENUE, WIDENER LIBRARY, CAMBRIDGE, MA 02138
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Inspection records
Aug 18, 2025#348443979Aug 18, 2025Referral (C) · Partial scope, Safety#348443979$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #348443979
Dates
- Opened
- Aug 18, 2025
- Closing Conference Date
- Aug 18, 2025
- Closed
- Jan 13, 2026
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 2
- Related Activity
- 1 referral
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 156 Linnaean Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
- Industry
- 611310 Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
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.
Feb 13, 2025#348041203Feb 13, 2025Fatality/Catastrophe (M) · No Inspection scope, Health#348041203$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #348041203
Dates
- Opened
- Feb 13, 2025
- Closing Conference Date
- Feb 13, 2025
- Closed
- Mar 4, 2025
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 1,000
- Related Activity
- 1 accident
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 784 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139
- Industry
- 611310 Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
Fatality/Catastrophe Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as a fatality/catastrophe inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data.
Incident Investigation Summary
Sep 12, 2023#346968068Sep 12, 2023Referral (C) · Partial scope, Health#346968068$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #346968068
Dates
- Opened
- Sep 12, 2023
- Closing Conference Date
- Sep 12, 2023
- Closed
- Dec 8, 2023
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 1,000
- Related Activity
- 1 referral
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 58 Clinton Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
- Industry
- 611310 Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
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.
Apr 27, 2020#344732359Apr 27, 2020Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Health#344732359$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #344732359
Dates
- Opened
- Apr 27, 2020
- Closing Conference Date
- Apr 27, 2020
- Closed
- Jan 12, 2021
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 3,000
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 10 Holyoke Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
- Industry
- 611310 Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
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.
Jan 11, 2019#343740874Jan 11, 2019Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Safety#343740874$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #343740874
Dates
- Opened
- Jan 11, 2019
- Closing Conference Date
- Jan 11, 2019
- Closed
- Apr 29, 2019
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 17,000
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 46 Blackstone Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
- Industry
- 611310 Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
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.
Jan 19, 2018#342887668Jan 19, 2018Referral (C) · Partial scope, Safety#342887668$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #342887668
Dates
- Opened
- Jan 19, 2018
- Closing Conference Date
- Jan 19, 2018
- Closed
- Feb 7, 2018
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 5
- Related Activity
- 1 referral
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 100 Edwin H. Land Blvd, Cambridge, MA 02139
- Industry
- 611310 Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
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.
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Apr 17, 2014#339683518Apr 17, 2014Unprogrammed Related (G) · Complete scope, Safety#339683518$7,0001 viol.1 violation$7,000 in penalties
Inspection #339683518
Dates
- Opened
- Apr 17, 2014
- Closing Conference Date
- Apr 17, 2014
- Contested
- Nov 4, 2014
- Final Order
- Jan 5, 2015
- Closed
- May 4, 2015
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 300
- Related Activity
- 1 referral
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 1
- Violation Types
- 1 serious
- Initial Penalties
- $6,300
- Penalties on Record
- $7,000
- Site Address
- 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
- Industry
- 611310 Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
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.
Violations
Violation list (1 of 1 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 1910.23 Ladders OSHA citation code: 19100023 C01 | Serious | 1 | 1 | $6,300 | $7,000 | May 1, 2015 | Nov 4, 2014 | Jan 5, 2015 |
Jun 7, 2012#334599032Jun 7, 2012Referral (C) · Partial scope, Safety#334599032$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #334599032
Dates
- Opened
- Jun 7, 2012
- Closing Conference Date
- Jun 7, 2012
- Closed
- Aug 29, 2012
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 21,000
- Related Activity
- 1 referral
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 155 Fawcett Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
- Industry
- 711110 Theater Companies and Dinner Theaters
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.
May 23, 2007#311044259May 23, 2007Referral (C) · Partial scope, Safety#311044259$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #311044259
Dates
- Opened
- May 23, 2007
- Closing Conference Date
- Nov 19, 2007
- Closed
- Nov 19, 2007
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 10,000
- Related Activity
- 1 referral
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
- Industry
- 611310 Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
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.
Apr 20, 2005#308762236Apr 20, 2005Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Health#308762236$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #308762236
Dates
- Opened
- Apr 20, 2005
- Closing Conference Date
- Apr 20, 2005
- Closed
- Apr 26, 2005
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 600
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 1 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
- Industry
- 611310 Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
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.
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.
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.
23 inspections, 1978 to 2025. 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.
Short cases: When a case closed soon after it opened, the closed marker is drawn slightly to the right so both markers stay visible. Each row's card shows the exact dates.