Unsafe Working Conditions
Conduct Screen Labor Rights
Dangerous or degrading workplace conditions — documented patterns of preventable injuries, deaths, or illness caused by inadequate safety measures, excessive hours, or disregard for worker health. Includes heat exposure deaths, chemical exposure, repetitive stress injuries at scale, and supply chain factory conditions. Same escalating threshold as other conduct codes: one incident is alarming, two is very concerning, three or more independent incidents with the same fact pattern is dispositive. Recency matters — companies that have genuinely reformed safety practices should be reassessed. Distinct from preventable_deaths (capital-structure-driven care deterioration) and worker_exploitation (compensation theft).
30 companies currently excluded under this screen
Excluded Companies (30 total)
Showing 30 of 30 companies excluded under this screen.
| Ticker | Company | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| 105630 | Hansae Co Ltd | Hansae Co Ltd operates apparel manufacturing facilities in Vietnam, China, Guatemala, Indonesia, Nicaragua, and Saipan. A 2016 factory assessment by the Worker Rights Consortium identified hazardous w... |
| 1326 | Formosa Chemicals & Fibre Corp | Excluded by the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global in 2020 for unacceptable risk of human rights violations. NBIM Council of Ethics documented illegal use of overtime, discrimination, and occupa... |
| 1434 | Formosa Taffeta Co Ltd | NBIM's council on ethics notes "Investigations into working conditions at Formosa Taffeta’s factory in Vietnam identified numerous labour rights violations such as the illegal and involuntary use of o... |
| 2792 | Honeys Holdings Co Ltd | Honeys Holdings Co Ltd, through its subsidiary Honeys Garment Industry Limited (HGIL), operates garment factories in Myanmar where systematic labor rights violations have been documented. In 2023, 20 ... |
| AAPL | Apple | A September 2025 China Labor Watch investigation found workers at Foxconn's Zhengzhou iPhone 17 facility were subjected to 60–75 hour weeks, dispatch labor usage at five times the legal cap, and inade... |
| ADM | Archer-Daniels-Midland Company | ADM has accumulated $51.9M in fines for 90 federal/state violations over the past decade per Violation Tracker. Safety record at Decatur, IL is severe: employee Robert Dautel killed in Apr 2023 locomo... |
| ARI | African Rainbow Minerals | African Rainbow Minerals participated in the historic R5-billion silicosis class action settlement in South Africa, compensating gold mineworkers who developed fatal occupational lung disease from uns... |
| BWA | BorgWarner | BorgWarner's Teamsters-represented workers went on strike citing unsafe working conditions at its facility. Workers reported safety failures and contract violations serious enough to warrant a picket ... |
| CP | CANADIAN PACIFIC KANSAS CITY LTD | CPKC has documented history of prioritizing operational throughput over mandated safety rest periods. In June 2023, Federal Court found railway guilty of contempt for 22 instances of intentionally ove... |
| CSGP | COSTAR GROUP INC | Investigative reporting (Business Insider, The Real Deal) and verified employee accounts describe a "culture of fear" and "surveillance-driven" management. In 2024-2025, intrusive oversight practices ... |
| CSX | CSX | ViolationTracker records 2,065 safety-related offense records against CSX since 2000, carrying a combined penalty total of $23,081,849. Of those, 2,054 are categorized specifically as railroad safety ... |
| CVE | Cenovus Energy Inc. | ViolationTracker documents 39 safety-related offense records for Cenovus Energy and its subsidiaries, spanning OSHA workplace safety, PHMSA pipeline safety, and FRA railroad safety violations. In Apri... |
| DAR | Darling Ingredients Inc. | OSHA records indicate a pattern of "Repeat" violations related to Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) procedures. A 2022 Final Order detailed a serious burn hazard where employees were exposed to trapped steam in a... |
| DG | Dollar General Corporation | Dollar General has been repeatedly cited by OSHA for egregious workplace safety violations, including blocked fire exits, unstable stacking, and hazardous store conditions. The company has faced milli... |
| DHI | D R HORTON INC | ViolationTracker documents $3,881,426 in regulatory penalties against D.R. Horton across 99 records since 2000, with workplace safety or health violations accounting for the largest share: 75 of those... |
| DLTR | Dollar Tree, Inc. | Dollar Tree and Family Dollar have accumulated $20.8 million in safety-related penalties across 313 OSHA enforcement actions. Inspectors have repeatedly found merchandise blocking exits and walkways, ... |
| GIL | Gildan Activewear Inc | Gildan Activewear operates large-scale apparel manufacturing facilities in Honduras, where it has faced multiple, independent labor rights investigations over more than a decade. In 2009, the Worker R... |
| HD | Home Depot, Inc. (The) | Historical reliance on informal migrant day labor leading to systemic wage theft; FLSA violations documented in ViolationTracker enforcement records |
| HRL | Hormel Foods Corporation | Hormel received three Serious OSHA citations in September 2025 for lockout/tagout and machine guarding failures at a production facility — violations that expose workers to amputation and crushing haz... |
| IDEXY | Industria de Diseno Textil | Inditex, the parent company of brands including Zara, operates a global supply chain of thousands of factories. Multiple independent investigations over more than a decade have documented a pattern of... |
| ITW | ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC | ViolationTracker documents 76 penalty records against Illinois Tool Works totaling over $6.1 million. OSHA has cited the company for 49 workplace safety violations totaling $628,000 across its manufac... |
| LCII | LCI INDUSTRIES | Chronic, repeat OSHA violator; heavily penalized $13,828 (Feb 2024), $7,605 (2024), and $7,500 (2023) for severe unmitigated hazards including toxic chemical exposure and hearing conservation failures... |
| NSC | Norfolk Southern Corporation | Norfolk Southern Corporation accumulates 1,967 railroad safety violations on Good Jobs First's Violation Tracker since 2000, carrying $18.7 million in safety-related penalties — a volume that reflects... |
| PHM | PULTEGROUP INC | PulteGroup has accumulated 30 regulatory violations for workplace safety or health offenses since 2000, resulting in $545,106 in penalties according to Violation Tracker (Good Jobs First). The 83 tota... |
| PKG | PACKAGING CORP OF AMERICA | Class action lawsuit (Case 26CV003725, Sacramento County Superior Court, Feb 2026) alleges Packaging Corporation of America failed to accurately record hours worked, underpaid sick wages, and denied p... |
| SNA | SNAP-ON INC | Snap-on manufacturing facilities have accumulated $495,400 in OSHA penalties across 14 enforcement records since 2000 (ViolationTracker). Pattern includes at least two amputation injuries: a 2005 hydr... |
| TSLA | Tesla | As of 2025, the AFL-CIO found 27 open cases with workplace safety violations. They note: "In many cases, Tesla refuses to pay small fines and prolongs the process by contesting the citations. In most ... |
| UBER | UBER TECHNOLOGIES INC | Uber Technologies operates a global ride-hailing and delivery platform. The company's gig labor model has been found by courts in multiple jurisdictions to misclassify drivers as independent contracto... |
| UNP | Union Pacific Corporation | Union Pacific Corporation has been designated a "serial violator" of the Federal Railroad Safety Act (FRSA) by OSHA. The company has faced more than 200 whistleblower complaints since 2001, establishi... |
| WM | WASTE MANAGEMENT INC | Waste Management has accumulated $950 million in total penalties across 444 enforcement records since 2000 (Violation Tracker / Good Jobs First), spanning OSHA safety violations, environmental penalti... |
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