UPS has 4 OSHA inspections on record in Oklahoma, the first in 1994.
OSHA's last visit started on Jun 16, 2017 after a fatality or catastrophe, in Oklahoma City.
Across those inspections OSHA issued 1 citation item: 1 other-than-serious.
OSHA proposed $12,675 in penalties and the amount has not been reduced.
For context, across all transportation and warehousing employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $3,555. UPS averages $12,675 over 1 cited inspection in that time.
1 inspection on this page followed a fatal incident.
UPS also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
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Incident on Jun 15, 2017 (fatal): Employee is pinned by tractor trailer and is killed
At 3:30 a.m. on June 15, 2017, an employee was standing at the dock plate in an empty tractor trailer slot facing into a warehouse. While using his cell phone, the employee did not see or hear a tractor trailer backing into the slot where he was standing and was crushed between the dock plate and the 53 foot tractor trailer. The employee was killed as a result.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2025, the Oklahoma City site logged 40 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 1,391 workers: 4.8 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 7.8 for its industry. Those cases cost 1,538 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Okokl - Oklahoma City Hub
Oklahoma City · 2025
1,391
40
22
4.8
7.8
Okoky - Frontier
Oklahoma City · 2025
294
13
9
6.3
7.8
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
29 CFR 1910.9 · Compliance duties owed to each employee
29 CFR 1910.9(a)
(a) Personal protective equipment. Standards in this part requiring the employer to provide personal protective equipment (PPE), including respirators and other types of PPE, because of hazards to employees impose a separate compliance duty with respect to each employee covered by the requirement. The employer must provide PPE to each employee required to use the PPE, and each failure to provide PPE to an employee may be considered a separate violation.
Other couriers and express delivery services employers in Oklahoma
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.
