U.S. POSTAL SERVICE
1535 PLATT SPRINGS RD., WEST COLUMBIA, SC 29169
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Inspection records
Jul 15, 2024#347632507Jul 15, 2024Follow-Up (F) · Partial scope, Safety#347632507$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #347632507
Dates
- Opened
- Jul 15, 2024
- Closing Conference Date
- Jul 15, 2024
- Closed
- Jul 24, 2024
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 626
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 2001 Dixiana Road, West Columbia, SC 29172
- 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.
Mar 6, 2024#347326209Mar 6, 2024Planned (H) · Partial scope, Safety#347326209$6,3381 viol.1 violation$6,338 in penalties
Inspection #347326209
Dates
- Opened
- Mar 6, 2024
- Closing Conference Date
- Mar 6, 2024
- Final Order
- May 14, 2024
- Closed
- May 28, 2024
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 626
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 1
- Violation Types
- 1 serious
- Initial Penalties
- $12,676
- Penalties on Record
- $6,338
- Site Address
- 2001 Dixiana Road, West Columbia, SC 29172
- Industry
- 491110
Planned Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as a planned inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data. Planned inspections are part of OSHA's scheduled enforcement activity rather than being opened directly from a complaint or reported incident at that worksite.
Violations
Violation list (1 of 1 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01002 | 1910.37 Maintenance, Safeguards, and Operational Features for Exit Routes OSHA citation code: 19100037 A03 | Serious | 3 | 14 | $12,676 | $6,338 | Apr 12, 2024 | - | May 14, 2024 |
May 2, 2023#346670961May 2, 2023Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Safety#346670961$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #346670961
Dates
- Opened
- May 2, 2023
- Closing Conference Date
- May 2, 2023
- Closed
- May 22, 2023
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 500
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 2001 Dixiana Road, West Columbia, SC 29172
- 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, 2021#345424303Jul 12, 2021Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Safety#345424303$7,2952 viol.2 violations$7,295 in penalties
Inspection #345424303
Dates
- Opened
- Jul 12, 2021
- Closing Conference Date
- Jul 12, 2021
- Final Order
- Oct 27, 2021
- Closed
- Nov 2, 2021
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 530
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 2
- Violation Types
- 1 serious, 1 other-than-serious
- Initial Penalties
- $7,295
- Penalties on Record
- $7,295
- Site Address
- 2001 Dixiana Road, West Columbia, SC 29172
- 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 (2 of 2 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 1910.151 Medical Services and First Aid OSHA citation code: 19100151 C | Serious | 1 | 3 | $7,295 | $7,295 | - | Oct 27, 2021 | |
| 02001 | 1910.132 Personal Protective Equipment - General Requirements OSHA citation code: 19100132 A | Other | 6 | 6 | $0 | $0 | Oct 27, 2021 | - | Oct 27, 2021 |
Sep 25, 2018#343489076Sep 25, 2018Monitoring (D) · Partial scope, Health#343489076$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #343489076
Dates
- Opened
- Sep 25, 2018
- Closing Conference Date
- Sep 25, 2018
- Closed
- Sep 26, 2018
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 633
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 2001 Dixana Road, West Columbia, SC 29172
- Industry
- 491110
Monitoring Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as a monitoring inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data. The public DOL category label is preserved here without adding extra interpretation beyond the government label.
Sep 25, 2018#343488540Sep 25, 2018Monitoring (D) · Partial scope, Safety#343488540$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #343488540
Dates
- Opened
- Sep 25, 2018
- Closing Conference Date
- Sep 25, 2018
- Closed
- Sep 26, 2018
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 633
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 2001 Dixana Road, West Columbia, SC 29172
- Industry
- 491110
Monitoring Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as a monitoring inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data. The public DOL category label is preserved here without adding extra interpretation beyond the government label.
Apr 26, 2017#342283900Apr 26, 2017Follow-Up (F) · Partial scope, Safety#342283900$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #342283900
Dates
- Opened
- Apr 26, 2017
- Closing Conference Date
- Apr 26, 2017
- Closed
- Jun 9, 2017
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 450
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 2001 Dixiana Road, West Columbia, SC 29172
- 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.
Apr 26, 2017#342283322Apr 26, 2017Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Safety#342283322$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #342283322
Dates
- Opened
- Apr 26, 2017
- Closing Conference Date
- Apr 26, 2017
- Closed
- Jun 22, 2017
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 450
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 2001 Dixiana Road, West Columbia, SC 29172
- 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 22, 2017#342122595Feb 22, 2017Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Safety#342122595$2,9871 viol.1 violation$2,987 in penalties
Inspection #342122595
Dates
- Opened
- Feb 22, 2017
- Closing Conference Date
- Feb 22, 2017
- Final Order
- Apr 3, 2017
- Closed
- Apr 10, 2017
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 400
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 1
- Violation Types
- 1 serious
- Initial Penalties
- $5,975
- Penalties on Record
- $2,987
- Site Address
- 2001 Dixiana Road, West Columbia, SC 29172
- 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 (1 of 1 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 1910.305 Electrical - Wiring Methods, Components, and Equipment OSHA citation code: 19100305 B02 I | Serious | 1 | 8 | $5,975 | $2,987 | - | Apr 3, 2017 |
Jul 18, 2016#341640910Jul 18, 2016Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Safety#341640910$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #341640910
Dates
- Opened
- Jul 18, 2016
- Closing Conference Date
- Nov 2, 2016
- Closed
- Nov 3, 2016
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Federal
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 300
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 2001 Dixiana Rd, West Columbia, SC 29172
- 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.
18 inspections, 1998 to 2024. 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.