Enforcement against U.S. franchise dealerships and body shops, pulled straight from the Department of Labor's OSHA records and aggregated for one industry: how citations trend, which states see the most, and the standards that cost dealers the most money.
Every federal and state-plan OSHA inspection recorded against NAICS 441 establishments.
Most dealer inspections are safety inspections (lifts, machinery, electrical, fire) rather than industrial-hygiene (health) inspections.
Bars show how often each standard appears across the 2,395 most-recent dealer inspections; the figure on the right is total penalties cited under it.
Most of these citations trace back to a handful of programs every dealership is supposed to keep current. Automotive Risk Management Partners helps franchise dealers and body shops keep those programs current.
See how ARMP helpsAutomotive Risk Management Partners (ARMP) is an all-in-one dealership compliance and cyber-security platform for franchise dealers, RV dealers, and multi-rooftop groups. We publish this database because dealers keep getting cited under the same handful of OSHA standards.
Directly from the U.S. Department of Labor's OSHA enforcement API, filtered to NAICS code 441 (motor vehicle and parts dealers). Inspection counts come from OSHA's inspection records; penalties and cited standards are joined from its violation records. It is public information, aggregated here for a single industry.
These charts are regenerated on a quarterly schedule from the latest OSHA data. Data current as of July 2026. Penalty figures are issued (cited) amounts, which can differ from amounts after informal settlement.
Dealerships and body shops share a recurring risk profile: chemicals on the shop floor (HazCom), spray operations (respiratory protection), lifts and machinery (lockout/tagout, machine guarding), and electrical work. A handful of standards account for most dealer citations year after year.