The HazIndex Forklift and Powered Industrial Truck OSHA Violations - Largest OSHA Penalties ranking shows published recorded penalties for Forklift and Powered Industrial Truck during the active public release. HazIndex is an independent publisher of workplace-safety rankings and analysis derived from public OSHA enforcement data, and this article summarizes the ranking without adding a new raw-data calculation.
The ranking covers OSHA citations issued from January 1, 2021 through December 31, 2025. It groups the public read-model results by violation record and sorts them by penalties. The parent HazIndex Forklift and Powered Industrial Truck index provides the broader index context for OSHA standard 1910.178.
What this ranking measures
This ranking measures recorded penalties already published in the HazIndex public read model. It does not normalize for employment, number of establishments, hours worked, inspection volume, or production levels. The ranking is therefore best read as a structured view of recorded OSHA enforcement outcomes, not as a complete measure of present-day safety conditions.
Key findings from the published rows
- 151985 - GRANGES AMERICAS INC - 1910.178 - NC ranks first with $108.8K penalties.
- MENARD, INC. - 1910.178 - IL ranks second with $100K penalties, leaving a first-to-second gap of $8.8K.
- The top three published rows account for 11.1% of the published ranking total.
- The top five published rows account for 16.9%, and the top ten account for 28.9%.
- The ranking includes 100 published violation records with a published ranking total of $2.7M penalties.
Leading results
The leading rows show where recorded OSHA enforcement activity is highest within this published ranking. 151985 - GRANGES AMERICAS INC - 1910.178 - NC is first, followed by MENARD, INC. - 1910.178 - IL and TRADER JOE'S COMPANY - 1910.178 - CO. Those positions are rank statements from the HazIndex table; they do not establish why the entities appear in that order.
- Rank 1: 151985 - GRANGES AMERICAS INC - 1910.178 - NC with $108.8K penalties.
- Rank 2: MENARD, INC. - 1910.178 - IL with $100K penalties.
- Rank 3: TRADER JOE'S COMPANY - 1910.178 - CO with $85K penalties.
- Rank 4: W8 SHIPPING LLC - 1910.178 - GA with $79.1K penalties.
- Rank 5: TRADER JOE'S - 1910.178 - PA with $76.1K penalties.
The difference between the first and second rows is $8.8K in the selected metric. Smaller rank gaps should be interpreted carefully because a nearby value can separate adjacent positions. Larger gaps can make the top position more visually distinct, but the ranking itself still does not establish a cause for the difference.
Concentration and distribution
The published total across this ranking is $2.7M penalties. The first three rows account for 11.1% of that total, while the first five account for 16.9%. By the tenth row, the visible top tier accounts for 28.9% of the published total.
Those percentages describe the distribution inside this HazIndex ranking only. They are useful for seeing whether recorded enforcement outcomes are concentrated near the top of the table or spread more broadly across the ranked violation records. They do not show whether unranked entities had no OSHA activity, and they do not replace the official records maintained by OSHA.
What the ranking does not show
Penalty amounts in this article refer to recorded final penalty values shown in the published HazIndex ranking. They do not measure injury frequency, and they should not be read as a complete measure of workplace-safety performance.
The ranking does not prove that one violation record is less safe than another, and it does not measure injuries, near misses, or current operating practices. It also does not show every workplace-safety event. It is a public HazIndex analysis layer over recorded OSHA enforcement data for a defined period.
Methodology and sources
HazIndex builds public ranking pages from materialized ranking rows, ranking definitions, yearly period values, and release metadata in the active public release. This Insight uses the same published output shown on the canonical ranking page and does not query large OSHA source-row tables or change the ranking calculation.
Readers can continue with the canonical HazIndex ranking, the parent HazIndex index, the HazIndex workplace-safety indexes hub, and the HazIndex dataset license and usage page. For authoritative case-level details, consult official OSHA resources such as OSHA Data and OSHA Establishment Search.
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Conclusion
The Forklift and Powered Industrial Truck OSHA Violations - Largest OSHA Penalties ranking gives readers a focused way to review published recorded penalties for Forklift and Powered Industrial Truck in the 2021-2025 HazIndex release. The most useful next step is to review the source ranking page, where the complete table and related ranking context are available.