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Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa: 2,207 cases from 44 jurisdictions, each with an official source and checked against that source before publication. Filter by country, area of law and sector. Click a chart to drill down one level.
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by company- Anonymised companies €7.01m 65 % · 5 cases
- Huws Gray Limited €2.54m 24 % · 1 case
- B&Q Limited €530,980 5 % · 1 case
- FleetPride Inc. €231,790 2 % · 1 case
- Adidas America Inc. €207,249 2 % · 1 case
- Amazon.com Services LLC €139,490 1 % · 1 case
- Jumbo (Supermarktkette) €50,000 0 % · 1 case
- Ideal Supply Inc. €43,239 0 % · 1 case
When?
per year, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | – |
| 2023 | 2 | €574,614 |
| 2024 | 3 | €6.58m |
| 2025 | 2 | €257,249 |
| 2026 | 4 | €3.35m |
12 cases
3 Sep 2026 B&Q LimitedB&Q: publicly named for minimum wage underpayment of 4,530 workers €530,980
In the 24th naming round of the National Minimum Wage scheme, B&Q was listed first: the company had underpaid 4,530 workers by a total of £456,934.72 (period according to the list: 15 May 2020 to 31 March 2025). Named employers had to pay the arrears and additionally received penalties whose amount per employer is not published (around £7m for the whole round). The amount is the arrears ordered to be repaid, not a fine.
Minimum wage errors in payroll quickly affect thousands of workers and are made public.
Minimum-wage-compliant payroll
- Authority / court
- Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade / Fair Work Agency (Ermittlung: HM Revenue and Customs)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Minimum wage and undeclared work
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Retail and e-commerce
- Published
- 3 Sep 2026
Original amount 456,934.72 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 3 Sep 2026.
- DBT/Fair Work Agency: Nearly 660 employers announced as failing to pay the minimum wage (03.09.2026) Press release of an authority
- Round 24 Naming Publication Spreadsheet (Liste der benannten Arbeitgeber) Official register or notice
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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15 Jul 2026 FleetPride Inc.FleetPride: $264,380 after asphyxiation death during tank trailer inspection €231,790
At the truck parts distributor's Corpus Christi (Texas) site, an employee was asphyxiated while inspecting a tank trailer. The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) found no confined space programme, deficiencies in the respiratory protection programme and electrical hazards, and proposed $264,380 (16 serious, 3 other violations).
Tanks and vessels are confined spaces with a risk of asphyxiation – no one may enter without a permit, atmospheric testing and an attendant.
Working in confined spaces and vessels
- Authority / court
- U.S. Department of Labor – Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
- Legal basis
- 29 CFR 1910.146 (Permit-required confined spaces); 29 CFR 1910.134 (Respiratory protection)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Retail and e-commerce
- Published
- 15 Jul 2026
Original amount 264,380 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 15 Jul 2026.
- US Department of Labor cites big rig parts distributer for confined space, safety hazards after worker fatality (OSHA) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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18 Jun 2026 Ideal Supply Inc.Ladder fall in warehouse: industrial supplies distributor pays CA$70,000 €43,239
At the warehouse and distribution centre in Listowel (around 130 employees at the site), a worker fell around 1.2 m while climbing down a ladder at high-bay racking. He had not been adequately informed, instructed and supervised on the safe use of ladders. Fine of CA$70,000 plus victim fine surcharge.
Even everyday tasks such as working from ladders at racking require documented instruction – otherwise there is no evidence whatsoever if an incident occurs.
Safe use of ladders in the warehouse
Missing or inadequate training played a role in the decision.
- Authority / court
- Provincial Offences Court Stratford (Ermittlung: Ontario Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
- Legal basis
- Sections 25(2)(a), 66(1) Occupational Health and Safety Act (Ontario)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Retail and e-commerce
- Mitigating circumstances
- Guilty plea.
- Published
- 8 Jul 2026
Original amount 70,000 CAD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 18 Jun 2026.
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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26 Mar 2026 Huws Gray LimitedBuilders' merchant Huws Gray: 2.2 million GBP after fatal conveyor accident €2.54m
At Herringswell sawmill in 2024 a labourer was crushed by a pack of timber weighing around three tonnes after a colleague started the conveyor without seeing him inside the conveyor framework. The company knew that workers were entering the danger zone – CCTV showed 19 occasions between 14 April and 23 May 2024 – but only put up stickers; fine of 2.2 million GBP plus 9,929 GBP in costs. According to its 2025 annual accounts, the company had an average of 4,570 employees.
Where you know of unsafe behaviour at machinery, prevent it by technical means – warning signs alone will not satisfy a court.
- Authority / court
- Chelmsford Magistrates' Court (Anklage: Health and Safety Executive)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
- Legal basis
- Section 2(1) Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Retail and e-commerce
- Employees
- 1,000 to 9,999
- Published
- 27 Mar 2026
Original amount 2,200,000 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 26 Mar 2026.
- Major builders merchant fined £2.2 million after worker killed in conveyor crush (HSE) Press release of an authority
- Companies House: Registereintrag Huws Gray Limited (02506633) Official register or notice
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 2 · Direct link
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30 May 2025 Adidas America Inc.Adidas America: USD 235,000 OSHA settlement over persisting fall hazards €207,249
Adidas America reached a settlement with the US Department of Labor for penalties of 235,000 USD after OSHA, during a 2024 follow-up inspection at a warehouse in New York State, found the missing guardrails and unsafe ladder already cited in 2021 still uncorrected and identified a further unsafe ladder. The company must introduce a safety and health management programme at sites in New York, New Jersey and Puerto Rico, retrain employees on fall hazards, assess fall risks at each site and stop using overhead storage areas. The authority allegedly made the findings set out here; this account is not based on a final judgment.
Cited deficiencies must be demonstrably corrected – if a follow-up inspection finds the same issues, the case becomes considerably more expensive.
Following up on cited health and safety deficiencies
Missing or inadequate training played a role in the decision.
- Authority / court
- U.S. Department of Labor – Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
- Legal basis
- Occupational Safety and Health Act (Absturzsicherung, Leitern)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Retail and e-commerce
- Repeat case
- yes
- Published
- 4 Jun 2025
Original amount 235,000 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 30 May 2025.
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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18 Feb 2025 Jumbo (Supermarktkette)OM: €50,000 penalty order for Jumbo after fatal accident at distribution centre €50,000
The Openbaar Ministerie (OM, Dutch Public Prosecution Service) imposed a penalty order of 50,000 EUR on the supermarket chain Jumbo for breaching Art. 32 of the Arbeidsomstandighedenwet (Dutch Working Conditions Act) after an employee was fatally struck by one of the company’s reversing lorries at the distribution centre in Woerden on 20 October 2021. According to the investigation by the Nederlandse Arbeidsinspectie (Netherlands Labour Authority), the designated smoking area was next to the loading docks and lorry traffic without adequate separation, and the lorry’s reversing alarm had been switched off. Jumbo has redesigned the smoking area, had reversing alarms activate automatically at every start, cooperated and is additionally paying a sum to the bereaved family.
Break and smoking areas belong in the risk assessment for site traffic and must be physically separated from loading and driving zones.
Traffic routes, loading docks and break areas in logistics
- Authority / court
- Openbaar Ministerie (OM), Functioneel Parket; Ermittlungen Nederlandse Arbeidsinspectie
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
- Legal basis
- Art. 32 Arbeidsomstandighedenwet (Arbowet); Strafbefehl des OM
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Retail and e-commerce
- Mitigating circumstances
- Subsequent safety measures, cooperation, payment to the bereaved family.
- Published
- 18 Feb 2025
- OM: Jumbo betaalt boete voor dodelijk arbeidsongeval distributiecentrum Woerden Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 2 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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19 Dec 2024 Amazon.com Services LLCAmazon: company-wide OSHA settlement on ergonomics in logistics centres, USD 145,000 €139,490
OSHA and Amazon.com Services entered into a company-wide settlement resolving ten cases over ergonomic hazards – such as lower back and other musculoskeletal disorders – arising from inspections at ten facilities since summer 2022, which were due to be tried before the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission in 2025. Amazon will pay 145,000 USD, according to OSHA more than 90 per cent of the penalties assessed, and must assess ergonomic risks annually at fulfilment, sortation and delivery centres, evaluate and implement controls and resolve employee complaints through a dispute resolution process. The authority allegedly made the findings set out here; this account is not based on a final judgment.
Ergonomic risks in warehouse logistics are now pursued like conventional safety failings – with a duty to assess risks across all sites.
Ergonomics and musculoskeletal strain in logistics
- Authority / court
- U.S. Department of Labor – Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
- Legal basis
- Occupational Safety and Health Act (Ergonomie-Beanstandungen)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Retail and e-commerce
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Published
- 19 Dec 2024
Original amount 145,000 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 19 Dec 2024.
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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18 Jun 2024 a major US online retailerUS online retailer: 5.9 million USD – undisclosed productivity quotas in two warehouses (Warehouse Quotas Law) €5.51m
The online retailer did not inform employees at two warehouses in Southern California in writing of the productivity quotas that applied; the authority regarded the peer-to-peer rating system used as a quota within the meaning of the law, which prohibits quotas that prevent breaks, toilet visits or compliance with health and safety. For 59,017 violations between October 2023 and March 2024, the Labor Commissioner’s Office imposed 5,901,700 USD.
Disclose performance metrics for employees, and do not let them effectively prevent breaks – even when they come in the guise of peer ratings.
Making productivity quotas and break rights transparent (managers)
- Authority / court
- California Labor Commissioner's Office (Division of Labor Standards Enforcement)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Working time
- Legal basis
- California Warehouse Quotas Law (AB 701, Labor Code §§ 2100 ff.); Labor Code § 2699(f)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Retail and e-commerce
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
Original amount 5,901,700 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 18 Jun 2024.
- California DIR, Medienraum (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2024) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 4 · Company name anonymised since 18 Jun 2026 · Direct link
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8 Feb 2024 three US trading companiesThree US trading companies: 1 million USD – warehouse workers without daily overtime and genuine breaks €929,541
Warehouse and sales staff were not paid for all hours worked, received overtime premiums only after 40 hours a week instead of after eight hours a day, and had to remain available to customers during rest and meal breaks. Following citations issued in 2021, the California Labor Commissioner’s Office agreed a settlement of 1 million USD for 107 employees.
A break during which employees must remain available is legally working time – break arrangements must ensure genuine interruptions.
Breaks are time off work – not standby
- Authority / court
- California Labor Commissioner's Office (Division of Labor Standards Enforcement)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Working time
- Legal basis
- California Labor Code (Daily Overtime, Meal and Rest Periods, Mindestlohn)
- Action
- Other
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Retail and e-commerce
Original amount 1,000,000 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 8 Feb 2024.
- California DIR, Medienraum (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2024) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 4 · Company name anonymised since 8 Feb 2026 · Direct link
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8 Nov 2023 a British trading companyFatal forklift accident without seatbelt: trading company pays £500,000 €574,614
A 35-year-old forklift driver died at one of the company's sites when his counterbalance forklift truck overturned after striking a kerb; he was not wearing a seatbelt and was trapped under the overhead guard. The company had not enforced the requirement to wear seatbelts and had not adequately assessed its forklift operations. Fine of £500,000 plus costs.
A seatbelt requirement only helps if supervisors check it and consistently address breaches.
Seatbelt use and safe driving of forklift trucks
- Authority / court
- Nottingham Magistrates' Court (Anklage: Health and Safety Executive)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
- Legal basis
- Section 2(1) Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Retail and e-commerce
- Employees
- 250 to 999
- Published
- 8 Nov 2023
Original amount 500,000 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 8 Nov 2023.
- HSE, Pressemitteilungen (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2023) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 4 · Company name anonymised since 8 Nov 2025 · Direct link
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22 Sep 2023 a German outdoor retailerHamburg: order to record working time against outdoor retailer upheld by court Order
Following an anonymous complaint about Sunday work and overlong working days, the Hamburg Amt für Arbeitsschutz (Office for Occupational Safety) ordered one of Europe's largest outdoor retailers on 22 September 2023 to record the actual working hours of all employees, including those on trust-based working time, with start, end and duration, and to submit records. On 21 August 2024 the Verwaltungsgericht Hamburg (Hamburg Administrative Court) largely dismissed the action, finding § 22(3) sentence 1 no. 1 ArbSchG (German Occupational Safety and Health Act) a sufficient legal basis; only part of one item had become moot.
Trust-based working time does not exempt from time recording; occupational safety authorities can enforce it by order without waiting for new legislation.
Duty to record working time even under trust-based working time
- Authority / court
- Amt für Arbeitsschutz Hamburg (Behörde für Justiz und Verbraucherschutz); bestätigt durch Verwaltungsgericht Hamburg, Kammer 15
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Working time
- Legal basis
- § 22 Abs. 3 Satz 1 Nr. 1 ArbSchG i. V. m. § 3 Abs. 2 Nr. 1 ArbSchG (Aufzeichnungsanordnung); § 17 Abs. 4 ArbZG (Vorlage von Arbeitszeitaufzeichnungen)
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Retail and e-commerce
- Published
- 21 Aug 2024
- VG Hamburg, Urteil vom 21.08.2024, 15 K 964/24 Court decision
Checked against the official source on 2 Oct 2026 · Company name anonymised since 22 Sep 2025 · Direct link
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27 Sep 2022 a South African online retailerWorkplace safety inspection: prohibition notices for an online retailer's warehouse Order
During a blitz inspection on 27 September 2022, inspectors of the Department of Employment and Labour (South African labour ministry) found breaches of several regulations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 85 of 1993 at an online retailer's warehouse, including rules on ergonomics, pressure equipment, hazardous chemical agents and driven machinery. The company received three prohibition notices – against contractors' step-ladders without non-slip rubber feet, against storing flammable chemicals in the general storage area and against deducting the cost of safety shoes from wages – as well as a direction to improve its clinic, set up marked driveways inside the warehouse and improve its risk assessment; the department allowed 60 days from service for this. Compliance orders were also issued for breaches of UIF, COIDA and BCEA provisions.
Labour inspections look at everyday details such as chemical storage, contractors' equipment and who pays for protective gear – shortcomings lead directly to prohibitions and short deadlines.
Health and safety in logistics warehouses: hazardous substances, work equipment, protective gear
- Authority / court
- Department of Employment and Labour (Inspection and Enforcement Services)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
- Legal basis
- Occupational Health and Safety Act 85 of 1993 (Ergonomics, Pressure Equipment, General Administration, Hazardous Chemical Agent, Driven Machinery und General Safety Regulations); Compliance Orders nach Unemployment Insurance Fund Act, Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act und Basic Conditions of Employment Act (Bezeichnungen laut Pressemitteilung)
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Retail and e-commerce
- Published
- 28 Sep 2022
Checked against the official source on 8 Oct 2026 · Company name anonymised since 27 Sep 2024 · Direct link