Pull historical OSHA inspection and citation records for scaffold-related violations (Subpart L standards) using the Department of Labor's public enforcement dataset.
domain: developer.dol.gov (DOL Open Data / apiprod.dol.gov v4) · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Note that the legacy enforcedata.dol.gov API has been retired; OSHA inspection data is being migrated to DOL's modernized Open Data Portal at apiprod.dol.gov/v4 — confirm current endpoint status before building against either.
Reference developer.dol.gov's 'DOL OSHA Enforcement' dataset documentation for table structure: Inspection, Violation, Accident, Accident Injury, Related Activity, and Strategic Codes tables, joined on activity_nr.
Filter the Violation table's 'standard' column for Subpart L citations (1926.450–.454 series) to isolate scaffold-specific enforcement history for a given employer, NAICS code, or geography.
Cross-check data.gov's 'DOL Enforcement Data - Inspection' catalog listing for the current dataset refresh date before treating results as current.
For a quick employer-specific lookup without building API integration, use OSHA's own public establishment search tools at osha.gov/data as a lighter-weight alternative.
Known gotchas
The underlying API is mid-migration (legacy enforcedata.dol.gov being retired in favor of apiprod.dol.gov/v4) — verify which endpoint is actually live and documented at the time of the request, since this is actively changing.
Citation data for a given inspection may not be publicly available for 5 days (federal) to 30 days (state-plan) after employer receipt — very recent inspections will show incomplete violation data.
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