---
license: cc-by-4.0
task_categories:
  - tabular-classification
tags:
  - usaspending
  - federal-contracts
  - federal-contractors
  - osha
  - whd
  - epa
  - msha
  - nlrb
  - sec
  - sam-exclusions
  - corporate-prosecutions
  - federal-enforcement
  - corporate-accountability
  - compliance
size_categories:
  - 1K<n<10K
---

What's in the data
A row appears when an employer meets ALL of these criteria:

- The employer is a federal contract recipient on USAspending.gov (any prime contract obligation, any fiscal year).
- The employer is in FastDOL's structured records (resolvable via name normalization + state + ZIP, the platform's standard entity-resolution key).
- The employer has **at least one violation category met** across the eight enforcement surfaces FastDOL tracks: OSHA (workplace safety), WHD (wage and hour), MSHA (mine safety), EPA (environmental), NLRB (labor relations), SEC (financial enforcement), UVA Corporate Prosecution Registry (federal criminal/civil prosecutions), and SAM.gov exclusions (federal debarment).

The `violation_categories_met` column reports the count (1–8) of those surfaces the employer hits, with per-agency totals broken out across the other columns. Each row is one employer, with total federal contract obligations, contract award count, top awarding agency, and per-agency enforcement counts and dollar penalties. The dataset is designed to surface the federal contractors that continue to receive taxpayer dollars despite documented enforcement records against them.

Source
U.S. Department of Treasury (USAspending.gov), U.S. Department of Labor (OSHA, WHD, MSHA), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (ECHO), National Labor Relations Board, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, GSA SAM.gov, and the University of Virginia Law Corporate Prosecution Registry — via FastDOL.

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**Federal Contractor Violations Dataset**

This is a mirror. Canonical home: https://www.fastdol.com/datasets/federal-contractor-violations

License: CC BY 4.0

Version DOI: [10.5281/zenodo.20777628](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20777628)

Concept DOI: [10.5281/zenodo.20777627](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20777627)

Download CSV: https://www.fastdol.com/datasets/federal-contractor-violations/data.csv

Visit the [canonical page](https://www.fastdol.com/datasets/federal-contractor-violations) for the full schema, methodology, BibTeX citation, and most recent version.