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THE UNITED ILLUMINATING COMPANY
$8,500
penalties
3
viol.
2
insp.

THE UNITED ILLUMINATING COMPANY

801 BRIDGEPORT AVENUE, SHELTON, CT 06484NAICS 221122 Electric Power Distribution

Inspections
2
Jul 2003 to Jul 2005 · 2 safety, 0 health
Violations
3
across 2 inspections
Penalties on record
$8,500
latest amounts in DOL records
By classification
Serious 3Willful 0Repeat 0Other 0

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Inspection records

Jul 18, 2005Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Safety#308757764$00 viol.

Inspection #308757764

Dates

Opened
Jul 18, 2005
Closing Conference Date
Jul 21, 2005
Closed
Jul 21, 2005

Inspection

Advance Notice
No
Owner Type
Private
Union Status
Yes
Number of Employees
250
Related Activity
1 complaint

Violations and Penalties

Total Violations
0
Initial Penalties
$0
Penalties on Record
$0
Site Address
801 Bridgeport Avenue, Shelton, CT 06484
Industry
221121 Electric Bulk Power Transmission and Control

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 11, 2003FatalityAccident (A) · Partial scope, Safety#123150492$8,5003 viol.

Inspection #123150492

Dates

Opened
Jul 11, 2003
Closing Conference Date
Nov 17, 2003
Closed
Jan 13, 2004

Inspection

Advance Notice
No
Owner Type
Private
Union Status
Yes
Number of Employees
838
Related Activity
1 referral, 1 accident

Violations and Penalties

Total Violations
3
Violation Types
3 serious
Initial Penalties
$11,500
Penalties on Record
$8,500
Site Address
801 Bridgeport Avenue, Shelton, CT 06484
Industry
221122 Electric Power Distribution

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.

FatalityHospitalizationJul 11, 2003

Employee is killed, two injured in electrical explosion

Injury: Burn/Scald (Heat)Body part: Body SystemSource: Electrical Apparatus/WiringEvent: Shock3 injury lines on this record

Violations

Violation list (3 of 3 shown)
CitationStandardTypeInstancesExposedInitialCurrentAbatementContestFinal Order
01001A1910.132
Personal Protective Equipment - General Requirements
OSHA citation code: 19100132 D01
Serious13$5,000$3,500Dec 12, 2003--
010021910.269
Electric Power Generation, Transmission, and Distribution
OSHA citation code: 19100269 L06 III
Serious33$5,000$3,500Dec 12, 2003--
010031910.132
Personal Protective Equipment - General Requirements
OSHA citation code: 19100132 E
Serious11$1,500$1,500Dec 12, 2003--
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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.

Standards cited

1910.132Personal Protective Equipment - General Requirements2 citations · $5,000
1910.269Electric Power Generation, Transmission, and Distribution1 citation · $3,500

Industry comparison

Violations per inspection
This employer1.5
Industry average2.0
Penalties per inspection
This employer$4,250
Industry average$2,033

Utilities, 14,301 employers with OSHA inspections. Arithmetic from DOL records.

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