Fort Wayne, Indiana · Food Services and Drinking Places · NAICS 722211
15inspections
17citation items
$3,670current penalties
Mar 12, 2026last inspection
OSHA has inspected McDonald's 15 times in Indiana since 1982.
The latest one began on Mar 12, 2026 after a complaint, in Ferdinand.
Those inspections ended with 17 citation items: 5 serious and 12 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $9,075 and now stand at $3,670, 60% lower after settlements or reviews.
Electrical equipment, general requirements comes up most often in these citations: 3 items under 1910.303.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for hotel and restaurant employers since 2015 is $1,350, and McDonald's averages $0 (2 cited inspections).
McDonald's also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
The Wage and Hour Division has 2 cases on it since 2015, with $0 in back wages owed to workers.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
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From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2023, the Indianapolis site logged 1 recordable injury or illness among about 54 workers: 66.2 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 3.0 for its industry.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Sysa
Indianapolis · 2023
54
1
0
66.2
3.0
Nyna
Indianapolis · 2023
44
0
0
0.0
3.0
Wage and hour cases
Cases by the Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division since 2015: unpaid minimum wage or overtime, child labor, family leave and more.
Period reviewed
Violations
Workers owed
Back wages
Penalties
Jun 27, 2019 to Aug 1, 2022
Fishers
75
0
$0
$109,026
Feb 15, 2019 to Feb 14, 2021
Greenfield
8
0
$0
$6,852
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(a) Basic requirement. When an authorized government representative asks for the records you keep under part 1904, you must provide copies of the records within four (4) business hours.
(c) General—(1) Energy control program. The employer shall establish a program consisting of energy control procedures, employee training and periodic inspections to ensure that before any employee performs any servicing or maintenance on a machine or equipment where the unexpected energizing, start up or release of stored energy could occur and cause injury, the machine or equipment shall be isolated from the energy source, and rendered inoperative.
29 CFR 1910.147(c)(5)(i)
(5) Protective materials and hardware. (i) Locks, tags, chains, wedges, key blocks, adapter pins, self-locking fasteners, or other hardware shall be provided by the employer for isolating, securing or blocking of machines or equipment from energy sources.
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.