US WEST COMMUNICATIONS
7218 PACIFIC AVE, TACOMA, WA 98408
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Inspection records
Dec 8, 1998#302168109Dec 8, 1998Planned (H) · Partial scope, Safety#302168109$2,0001 viol.1 violation$2,000 in penalties
Inspection #302168109
Dates
- Opened
- Dec 8, 1998
- Closing Conference Date
- Dec 11, 1998
- Contested
- May 10, 1999
- Final Order
- Jul 9, 1999
- Closed
- Aug 18, 1999
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 1
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 1
- Violation Types
- 1 serious
- Initial Penalties
- $3,000
- Penalties on Record
- $2,000
- Site Address
- Custer & Bridgeport Way, Tacoma, WA 98408
- Industry
- Not classified in OSHA's inspection record.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 0320034002 OSHA citation code: 0320034002 B | Serious | 1 | 1 | $3,000 | $2,000 | Dec 11, 1998 | May 10, 1999 | Jul 9, 1999 |
Aug 30, 1998#115177768Aug 30, 1998Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Safety#115177768$01 viol.1 violation$0 in penalties
Inspection #115177768
Dates
- Opened
- Aug 30, 1998
- Closing Conference Date
- Oct 5, 1998
- Closed
- May 17, 1999
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 40
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 1
- Violation Types
- 1 other-than-serious
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 7850-B S Trafton, Tacoma, WA 98409
- 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 (1 of 1 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 0320023004 OSHA citation code: 0320023004 C | Other | 1 | 40 | $0 | $0 | Mar 31, 1999 | - | - |
Aug 12, 1996#115263626Aug 12, 1996FatalityAccident (A) · Partial scope, SafetyFatality#115263626$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #115263626
Dates
- Opened
- Aug 12, 1996
- Closing Conference Date
- Aug 23, 1996
- Closed
- Aug 23, 1996
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 150
- Related Activity
- 1 accident
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 7850-B S Trafton, Tacoma, WA 98409
- 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.
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.
One employee killed, one injured in car accident
Aug 31, 1993#111429486Aug 31, 1993Planned (H) · Partial scope, Safety#111429486$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #111429486
Dates
- Opened
- Aug 31, 1993
- Closing Conference Date
- Aug 31, 1993
- Closed
- Sep 3, 1993
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 1
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 612 113th S, Tacoma, WA 98444
- Industry
- Not classified in OSHA's inspection record.
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.
Aug 13, 1991#111530093Aug 13, 1991Planned (H) · Partial scope, Safety#111530093$02 viol.2 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #111530093
Dates
- Opened
- Aug 13, 1991
- Closing Conference Date
- Aug 16, 1991
- Closed
- Sep 10, 1991
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 1
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 2
- Violation Types
- 2 other-than-serious
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 7218 Pacific Ave, Tacoma, WA 98408
- Industry
- Not classified in OSHA's inspection record.
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 (2 of 2 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 0320029003 OSHA citation code: 0320029003 C | Other | 1 | 1 | $0 | $0 | Aug 16, 1991 | - | - |
| 01002 | 0320027001 | Other | 1 | 1 | $0 | $0 | Aug 16, 1991 | - | - |
Oct 9, 1990#111452637Oct 9, 1990Planned (H) · Complete scope, Safety#111452637$2402 viol.2 violations$240 in penalties
Inspection #111452637
Dates
- Opened
- Oct 9, 1990
- Closing Conference Date
- Oct 9, 1990
- Contested
- Nov 27, 1990
- Final Order
- Jan 27, 1991
- Closed
- Jul 10, 1992
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 1
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 2
- Violation Types
- 1 serious, 1 other-than-serious
- Initial Penalties
- $240
- Penalties on Record
- $240
- Site Address
- 102th St & Golden Given Rd, Tacoma, WA 98497
- Industry
- Not classified in OSHA's inspection record.
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 (2 of 2 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 0320025002 | Serious | 1 | 1 | $240 | $240 | Oct 9, 1990 | Nov 27, 1990 | Jan 27, 1991 |
| 02001 | 0320026002 | Other | 1 | 1 | $0 | $0 | Oct 9, 1990 | Nov 27, 1990 | Jan 27, 1991 |
Apr 12, 1990#111595617Apr 12, 1990Planned (H) · Complete scope, Safety#111595617$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #111595617
Dates
- Opened
- Apr 12, 1990
- Closing Conference Date
- Apr 17, 1990
- Closed
- Apr 20, 1990
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 1
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 4300 Bk Tower Lane, Tacoma, WA 98424
- Industry
- Not classified in OSHA's inspection record.
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.
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.
7 inspections, 1990 to 1998. 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.