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FRED WILLIAMS INC.
$2,520
penalties
1
viol.
3
insp.

FRED WILLIAMS INC.

320 BENT STREET, CAMBRIDGE, MA 02139NAICS 238220 Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors

Inspections
3
Jul 2002 to May 2017 · 3 safety, 0 health
Violations
1
across 3 inspections
Penalties on record
$2,520
latest amounts in DOL records
By classification
Serious 0Willful 0Repeat 0Other 1

Having inspection records is common for businesses in regulated industries. Data and methodology

Inspection records

May 16, 2017Referral (C) · Complete scope, Safety#342340379$00 viol.

Inspection #342340379

Dates

Opened
May 16, 2017
Closing Conference Date
May 16, 2017
Closed
Jun 21, 2017

Inspection

Advance Notice
No
Owner Type
Private
Union Status
Yes
Number of Employees
75
Related Activity
1 referral

Violations and Penalties

Total Violations
0
Initial Penalties
$0
Penalties on Record
$0
Site Address
40 Erie Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Industry
238220 Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors

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.

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.

HospitalizationMay 16, 2017

Employee falls from ladder and fractures skull

Event: Fall (From Elevation)
Nov 22, 2013Programmed Related (I) · Complete scope, Safety#339498602$2,5201 viol.

Inspection #339498602

Dates

Opened
Nov 22, 2013
Closing Conference Date
Nov 22, 2013
Final Order
Jan 6, 2014
Closed
Jan 21, 2014

Inspection

Advance Notice
No
Owner Type
Private
Union Status
Yes
Number of Employees
60

Violations and Penalties

Total Violations
1
Violation Types
1 other-than-serious
Initial Penalties
$2,520
Penalties on Record
$2,520
Site Address
215 1st Street, Cambridge, MA 02142
Industry
238220 Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors

Programmed Related Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as a programmed 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)
CitationStandardTypeInstancesExposedInitialCurrentAbatementContestFinal Order
010011926.350
Gas Welding and Cutting
OSHA citation code: 19260350 A07
Other11$2,520$2,520-Jan 6, 2014
Jul 15, 2002Referral (C) · Partial scope, Safety#306095506$00 viol.

Inspection #306095506

Dates

Opened
Jul 15, 2002
Closing Conference Date
Oct 29, 2002
Closed
Jan 14, 2003

Inspection

Advance Notice
No
Owner Type
Private
Union Status
No
Number of Employees
10
Related Activity
1 referral

Violations and Penalties

Total Violations
0
Initial Penalties
$0
Penalties on Record
$0
Site Address
320 Bent Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
Industry
238220 Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors

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.

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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

1926.350Gas Welding and Cutting1 citation · $2,520

Industry comparison

Violations per inspection
This employer0.3
Industry average2.1
Penalties per inspection
This employer$840
Industry average$2,540

Specialty Trade Contractors, 559,279 employers with OSHA inspections. Arithmetic from DOL records.

BLS 2024 survey: plumbing, heating, and air-conditioning contractors reported 3.0 injuries and illnesses per 100 full-time workers (total recordable cases, national, private industry; relative standard error 5.2%; NAICS 23822 level). This is an industry-wide average from a federal survey, not a measurement of this establishment. Source

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