Violation Tracker Update Adds Federal and State Enforcement Records for Home Depot

Violation Tracker (maintained by Good Jobs First) "offers an aggregated, searchable database of enforcement actions, penalties and settlements linked to corporate parent companies," and its Home Depot entry now aggregates federal and state enforcement records tied to a range of Home Depot name variants and subsidiaries. The excerpted Violation Tracker rows supplied for the update list specific actions and fines, including HOME DEPOT USA, INC #2734 - workplace safety or health violation - 2022 - OSHA - $5,000; HOME DEPOT U.S.A., INC. - workplace safety or health violation - 2023 - OSHA - $5,000; and THE HOME DEPOT, INC. - workplace safety or health violation - 2019 - OSHA - $5,500, among others. The entry set in the excerpt spans years shown from 2001 through a 2025 TX-ENV water pollution violation listed at $5,400.

The Violation Tracker excerpt in the update shows a concentration of OSHA workplace-safety or health violations in the supplied rows, with individual penalty amounts in the excerpt ranging from $5,000 to $7,480. The excerpted list also includes state environmental and labor agency actions: Interline Brands, Inc. had an EPA environmental violation in 2019 for $5,000; a CA-DPR pesticide violation for Interline Brands, Inc. is listed for 2016 at $5,100; and Home Depot 2804 is shown with a MN-ENV hazardous waste violation in 2002 for $7,230. The supplied excerpt contains ellipses in two places, indicating additional Violation Tracker entries tied to Home Depot entities beyond those shown.

Separately, an EPA enforcement page included in the materials details lead-renovation findings tied to Home Depot U.S.A. Inc. The EPA text states: "EPA discovered the alleged violations through customer complaints about projects performed in Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin which showed Home Depot frequently subcontracted work to uncertified firms, did not use lead-safe work practices, did not perform required post-renovation cleaning, did not provide the EPA-required lead-based paint pamphlets to occupants, and did not establish records of compliance." That passage names the five states and lists the specific alleged failings the EPA identified.

The EPA excerpt characterizes Home Depot U.S.A. Inc. within the corporate structure and national footprint: "Home Depot U.S.A. Inc. is a subsidiary of The Home Depot, Inc., with offices in Atlanta, Georgia. At over 2,000 Home Depot stores located throughout the U.S. (including the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the territories of the U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam), customers purchase a home improvement product—like flooring, carpet, cabinets, countertops, or windows—and contract with Home Depot for installation. Home Depot has a network of local contractors that it hires to complete projects in thousands of homes every day."

The EPA excerpt also records specific injunctive-relief commitments Home Depot agreed to undertake: "Home Depot will add a link on its website to EPA’s content on lead-safe work practices and use a company-wide system to actively track the RRP firm and renovator certifications of its contractors. In addition, Home Depot will take action to respond to situations where a contractor is not operating in compliance with the RRP Rule, investigate all reports of potential noncompliance, and ensure that any violations are corrected and reported to EPA." The supplied EPA excerpt includes a "Civil Penalty" heading but does not include a numeric civil penalty amount in the materials provided here.

The Violation Tracker rows supplied use multiple naming variants - including HOME DEPOT USA, INC; HOME DEPOT U.S.A. INC. (2602); THE HOME DEPOT STORE # 6168; HOME DEPOT HOME SERVICES BATH REMODELING; HD SUPPLY FACILITIES MAINTENANCE; and Interline Brands, Inc. - and list enforcement agencies as OSHA, EPA, CA-DPR, FL-DEP, TX-ENV, IA-ENV, MN-ENV and CA-LCO. The excerpted records underscore repeated agency attention across workplace safety, environmental and labor domains, with per-action fines shown in the excerpt clustered around the low five- to seven-thousand-dollar range.

The supplied Violation Tracker excerpt is not complete; the materials show "[...]" omissions and a truncated summary line in the original item, and the EPA extract omits a civil-penalty figure and contact details. The entries in the excerpt, including a 2025 TX-ENV water-pollution row ($5,400), should be verified against the full Violation Tracker Home Depot page and underlying agency records for dates, documents and final penalty amounts. The combined record in the excerpts nevertheless documents a pattern of multi-agency enforcement tied to Home Depot entities and an EPA lead-rule action that produced companywide compliance commitments.