U.S. POSTAL SERVICE
4920 VENABLE AVENUE, CHARLESTON, WV 25304
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Inspection records
Aug 13, 2019#344226402Aug 13, 2019Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Health#344226402$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #344226402
Dates
- Opened
- Aug 13, 2019
- Closing Conference Date
- Aug 13, 2019
- Closed
- Jul 6, 2020
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Federal
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 157
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 1002 Lee Street E., Charleston, WV 25301
- Industry
- 491110
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.
Mar 21, 2019#343901955Mar 21, 2019Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Safety#343901955$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #343901955
Dates
- Opened
- Mar 21, 2019
- Closing Conference Date
- Mar 21, 2019
- Closed
- Jul 6, 2020
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- Not displayed
- Related Activity
- 2 complaints
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 1000 Centre Way, Charleston, WV 25309
- Industry
- 491110
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 12, 2017#342460128Jul 12, 2017FatalityFatality/Catastrophe (M) · Partial scope, HealthFatality#342460128$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #342460128
Dates
- Opened
- Jul 12, 2017
- Closing Conference Date
- Jul 12, 2017
- Closed
- Jan 29, 2018
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 140
- Related Activity
- 1 accident
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 5622 Virginia Avenue, Charleston, WV 25304
- Industry
- 491110
Fatality/Catastrophe Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as a fatality/catastrophe inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data.
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 collapses and dies on mail delivery route
Jan 15, 2014#339547770Jan 15, 2014Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Safety#339547770$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #339547770
Dates
- Opened
- Jan 15, 2014
- Closing Conference Date
- Jan 15, 2014
- Closed
- May 1, 2014
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 518
- Related Activity
- 2 complaints
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 1000 Centre Way, Charleston, WV 25309
- Industry
- 491110
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 18, 2011#315222968Feb 18, 2011Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Safety#315222968$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #315222968
Dates
- Opened
- Feb 18, 2011
- Closing Conference Date
- Feb 18, 2011
- Closed
- Feb 18, 2011
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 275
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 1000 Centre Way, Charleston, WV 25309
- Industry
- 491110
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.
Nov 3, 2009#311682447Nov 3, 2009Unprogrammed Related (G) · Partial scope, Safety#311682447$1,0001 viol.1 violation$1,000 in penalties
Inspection #311682447
Dates
- Opened
- Nov 3, 2009
- Closing Conference Date
- Nov 3, 2009
- Closed
- Mar 2, 2010
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 291
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 1
- Violation Types
- 1 other-than-serious
- Initial Penalties
- $1,000
- Penalties on Record
- $1,000
- Site Address
- 1000 Centre Way, Charleston, WV 25309
- Industry
- 491110
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 | 1904.29 Forms OSHA citation code: 19040029 B01 | Other | 9 | 291 | $1,000 | $1,000 | Dec 1, 2009 | - | - |
Oct 21, 2009#311682439Oct 21, 2009Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Safety#311682439$2,5003 viol.3 violations$2,500 in penalties
Inspection #311682439
Dates
- Opened
- Oct 21, 2009
- Closing Conference Date
- Nov 3, 2009
- Closed
- Mar 2, 2010
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 10
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 3
- Violation Types
- 3 other-than-serious
- Initial Penalties
- $3,500
- Penalties on Record
- $2,500
- Site Address
- 1002 Lee Street, East, Charleston, WV 25301
- Industry
- 491110
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 | 1910.37 Maintenance, Safeguards, and Operational Features for Exit Routes OSHA citation code: 19100037 A03 | Other | 1 | 10 | $1,500 | $1,500 | Nov 19, 2009 | - | - |
| 02001 | 1904.29 Forms OSHA citation code: 19040029 B01 | Other | 8 | 10 | $1,000 | $1,000 | Nov 19, 2009 | - | - |
| 02002 | 1904.29 Forms OSHA citation code: 19040029 B02 | Other | 1 | 10 | $1,000 | $0 | Nov 19, 2009 | - | - |
Feb 27, 2003#305485120Feb 27, 2003Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Safety#305485120$6753 viol.3 violations$675 in penalties
Inspection #305485120
Dates
- Opened
- Feb 27, 2003
- Closing Conference Date
- Feb 27, 2003
- Closed
- Jul 11, 2003
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 515
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 3
- Violation Types
- 3 other-than-serious
- Initial Penalties
- $1,350
- Penalties on Record
- $675
- Site Address
- 1002 Lee Street, Charleston, WV 25301
- Industry
- 491110
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 | 1910.147 Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout) OSHA citation code: 19100147 C01 | Other | 1 | 6 | $1,350 | $675 | Apr 24, 2003 | - | - |
| 02001 | 1904.4 Recording Criteria OSHA citation code: 19040004 A | Other | 9 | 515 | $0 | $0 | Mar 26, 2003 | - | - |
| 02002 | 1910.303 Electrical - General Requirements OSHA citation code: 19100303 G01 V | Other | 1 | 6 | $0 | $0 | Mar 21, 2003 | - | - |
Oct 4, 2002#300468543Oct 4, 2002Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Safety#300468543$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #300468543
Dates
- Opened
- Oct 4, 2002
- Closing Conference Date
- Oct 4, 2002
- Closed
- Oct 4, 2002
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 575
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 1002 Lee Street, East, Charleston, WV 25301
- Industry
- 491110
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 18, 2000#116218868Oct 18, 2000Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Safety#116218868$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #116218868
Dates
- Opened
- Oct 18, 2000
- Closing Conference Date
- Oct 18, 2000
- Closed
- Oct 18, 2000
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 33
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 4920 Venable Avenue, Charleston, WV 25304
- 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.
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.
16 inspections, 1992 to 2019. 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.