FedEx Freight, Inc.: OSHA inspections and violations
Toledo, Ohio · General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Less Than Truckload · NAICS 484122
3inspections
1citation items
$11,000current penalties
Apr 21, 2022last inspection
FedEx Freight, Inc. has 3 OSHA inspections on record in Ohio, the first in 2013.
OSHA's last visit started on Apr 21, 2022 on a referral, in Huber Heights.
Across those inspections OSHA issued 1 citation item: 1 serious.
OSHA proposed $14,502 in penalties. After settlements and reviews the total is $11,000, down 24%.
For context, across all transportation and warehousing employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $2,412. FedEx Freight, Inc. averages $11,000 over 1 cited inspection in that time.
FedEx Freight, Inc. also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 3 severe injuries to OSHA since 2015.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
Ohio · latest 90 days of OSHA records
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Incident on Apr 27, 2018: Employee falls from storage rack and ruptures colon
At 2:00 a.m. on April 27, 2018, an employee was climbing on a racking unit to straighten up some stock and fell, rupturing his colon. The employee was hospitalized.
No citations from this inspection.
Inspection 339299869 OPENED AUG 15, 2013Closed
Complaint · Partial · Health · 175 employees at the site · Closed Sep 2, 2014
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2025, the Huber Heights site logged 17 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 299 workers: 4.9 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 3.6 for its industry. Those cases cost 198 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Dayton OH FXFE-DAY
Huber Heights · 2025
299
17
5
4.9
3.6
Youngstown OH FXFE-YNG
North Jackson · 2025
243
13
8
4.6
3.6
Dayton Shop OH FXFE-DAYS
Huber Heights · 2025
22
1
0
4.4
3.6
Youngstown Shop OH FXFE-YNGS
North Jackson · 2025
21
1
1
4.8
3.6
Day
Huber Heights · 2018
439
29
4
5.7
3.6
YNG
North Jackson · 2018
341
26
9
6.1
3.6
Severe injury reports
Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 3 reports on file.
An employee was standing on the forks of a forklift to unhook a load secured in the back of a truck. She fell off the forks and suffered a broken left leg.
Nov 21, 2018, Huber Heights: Hospitalization · fractures · elbow(s)
An employee was connecting the trailer to the tractor. While turning the crank on the trailer to level it up with the tractor, the crank flipped around and struck the employee's right elbow fracturing it.
Oct 25, 2017, North Jackson: Hospitalization · fractures · multiple trunk locations
An employee was driving a forklift from a dock onto a truck trailer when the truck trailer began to pull away. The forklift fell from the dock to the ground and landed in an upright position. The employee suffered a broken rib and vertebra.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
29 CFR 1910.178 · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks
29 CFR 1910.178(l)(4)(ii)(a)
(A) The operator has been observed to operate the vehicle in an unsafe manner;
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA enforcement data. A citation is OSHA's allegation; employers can contest it, and the status column shows where each item stands. Something wrong on this page? Tell us.