U.S. POSTAL SERVICE
1165 2ND AVE., DES MOINES, IA 50318 · NAICS 491110
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Inspection records
May 27, 2026#348962523May 27, 2026Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Safety#348962523$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #348962523
Dates
- Opened
- May 27, 2026
- Closing Conference Date
- Aug 27, 2026
- Closed
- Sep 1, 2026
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Federal
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 20,000
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 1165 2nd Avenue, Des Moines, IA 50318
- 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.
Aug 12, 2025#348439159Aug 12, 2025Follow-Up (F) · Partial scope, Safety#348439159$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #348439159
Dates
- Opened
- Aug 12, 2025
- Closing Conference Date
- Aug 12, 2025
- Closed
- Jan 7, 2026
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Federal
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 25,000
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 1165 2nd Avenue, Des Moines, IA 50318
- Industry
- 491110
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.
Jul 9, 2025#348364415Jul 9, 2025Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Safety#348364415$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #348364415
Dates
- Opened
- Jul 9, 2025
- Closing Conference Date
- Aug 12, 2025
- Closed
- Dec 8, 2025
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 25,000
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 1165 2nd Avenue, Des Moines, IA 50318
- 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.
Aug 29, 2024#347722613Aug 29, 2024Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Health#347722613$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #347722613
Dates
- Opened
- Aug 29, 2024
- Closing Conference Date
- Aug 29, 2024
- Closed
- Dec 18, 2024
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Federal
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 80
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 430 E Mckinley Ave, Des Moines, IA 50313
- 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 2, 2024#347595217Jul 2, 2024Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Health#347595217$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #347595217
Dates
- Opened
- Jul 2, 2024
- Closing Conference Date
- Jul 2, 2024
- Closed
- Oct 17, 2024
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Federal
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 10,000
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 430 E. Mckinley Ave., Des Moines, IA 50315
- 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.
May 15, 2024#347483919May 15, 2024Referral (C) · Partial scope, Safety#347483919$01 viol.1 violation$0 in penalties
Inspection #347483919
Dates
- Opened
- May 15, 2024
- Closing Conference Date
- May 15, 2024
- Final Order
- Sep 26, 2024
- Closed
- Sep 26, 2024
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Federal
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 400
- Related Activity
- 1 referral
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 1
- Violation Types
- 1 other-than-serious
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 1165 2nd Avenue, Des Moines, IA 50318
- Industry
- 491110
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)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 1904.39 Reporting Fatalities, Hospitalizations, Amputations, and Losses of an Eye OSHA citation code: 19040039 A02 | Other | 1 | 1 | $0 | $0 | Sep 27, 2024 | - | Sep 26, 2024 |
Jan 23, 2024#347227647Jan 23, 2024Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Safety#347227647$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #347227647
Dates
- Opened
- Jan 23, 2024
- Closing Conference Date
- Apr 26, 2024
- Closed
- May 3, 2024
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 50,000
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 4000 109th St., Des Moines, IA 50395
- 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.
Sep 1, 2023#346956436Sep 1, 2023Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Health#346956436$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #346956436
Dates
- Opened
- Sep 1, 2023
- Closing Conference Date
- Jan 12, 2024
- Closed
- Jan 22, 2024
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 560
- Related Activity
- 3 complaints
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 1165 2nd Ave, Des Moines, IA 50316
- 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 31, 2023#346887011Jul 31, 2023Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Safety#346887011$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #346887011
Dates
- Opened
- Jul 31, 2023
- Closing Conference Date
- Aug 4, 2023
- Closed
- Sep 26, 2023
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 60
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 1300 Ne 56th Street, Des Moines, IA 50317
- 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.
Jun 21, 2023#346784648Jun 21, 2023Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Health#346784648$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #346784648
Dates
- Opened
- Jun 21, 2023
- Closing Conference Date
- Aug 24, 2023
- Closed
- Sep 5, 2023
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Federal
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 100
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 430 E. Mckinley Ave, Des Moines, IA 50315
- 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.
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.
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.
50 inspections, 1995 to 2026. 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.
The timeline shows the 50 most recent of 62 inspections with a recorded opening date.
Standards cited
Chemical exposure sampling
Industry comparison
NAICS 491, 2,234 employers with OSHA inspections. Arithmetic from DOL records.