UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD
14TH STREET & 21ST AVENUE, COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA 51501
Having inspection records is common for businesses in regulated industries. Data and methodology
Inspection records
Sep 19, 2014#317823946Sep 19, 2014Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Health#317823946$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #317823946
Dates
- Opened
- Sep 19, 2014
- Closing Conference Date
- Oct 16, 2014
- Closed
- Oct 16, 2014
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 2
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 1300 N 12th St Bldg. 301, Council Bluffs, IA 51501
- Industry
- 482111
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.
Oct 28, 2005#308262021Oct 28, 2005Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Safety#308262021$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #308262021
Dates
- Opened
- Oct 28, 2005
- Closing Conference Date
- Nov 1, 2005
- Closed
- Nov 16, 2005
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 15
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 14th Avenue & 21st Street, Building 317, Council Bluffs, IA 51501
- Industry
- 488210 Support Activities for Rail Transportation
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.
Jul 6, 2005#308260132Jul 6, 2005Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Safety#308260132$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #308260132
Dates
- Opened
- Jul 6, 2005
- Closing Conference Date
- Jul 26, 2005
- Closed
- Aug 29, 2005
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 52,417
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 14th Avene & 21st Street, Council Bluffs, IA 51501
- Industry
- 482111
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.
Feb 17, 2005#308257518Feb 17, 2005FatalityAccident (A) · Partial scope, HealthFatality#308257518$15,0001 viol.1 violation$15,000 in penalties
Inspection #308257518
Dates
- Opened
- Feb 17, 2005
- Closing Conference Date
- Jun 1, 2005
- Contested
- Sep 8, 2005
- Final Order
- Oct 27, 2005
- Closed
- Jan 20, 2006
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 29
- Related Activity
- 1 accident
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 1
- Violation Types
- 1 serious
- Initial Penalties
- $4,500
- Penalties on Record
- $15,000
- Site Address
- 1100 Avenue G Street, Council Bluffs, IA 51501
- Industry
- 336510 Railroad Rolling Stock Manufacturing
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.
Employee is killed when flammable vapors explode
Violations
Violation list (1 of 1 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 880004 | Serious | 1 | 4 | $4,500 | $15,000 | Nov 10, 2005 | Sep 8, 2005 | Oct 27, 2005 |
Jul 1, 1987#104267067Jul 1, 1987Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Safety#104267067$03 viol.3 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #104267067
Dates
- Opened
- Jul 1, 1987
- Closing Conference Date
- Sep 10, 1987
- Closed
- Jun 28, 1988
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 400
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 3
- Violation Types
- 3 other-than-serious
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 14th Street & 21st Avenue, Council Bluffs, IA 51501
- Industry
- Not classified in OSHA's inspection record.
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 (3 of 3 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 120.3 OSHA citation code: 1200003 3 | Other | 1 | 10 | $0 | $0 | Jun 1, 1988 | - | - |
| 01002 | 120.5 OSHA citation code: 1200005 1 | Other | 1 | 10 | $0 | $0 | Oct 20, 1987 | - | - |
| 01003 | 120.6 | Other | 1 | 10 | $0 | $0 | Jun 1, 1988 | - | - |
Apr 21, 1982#17163734Apr 21, 1982Accident (A) · Partial scope, Safety#17163734$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #17163734
Dates
- Opened
- Apr 21, 1982
- Closing Conference Date
- May 6, 1982
- Closed
- Aug 30, 1982
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- Not recorded
- Owner Type
- Not recorded
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 612
- Related Activity
- 1 accident
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 2313 18th Avenue, Council Bluffs, IA 51501
- Industry
- Not classified in OSHA's inspection record.
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.
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.
6 inspections, 1982 to 2014. 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.