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What inspectors find
Agencies publish what they cited, what they found and what it cost. Trade magazines summarize the headline. Each page here restates one official document for the people who run a hotel, a condominium or a facility: what was measured, what it asks of a building team, and the primary source, with the date we last read it.
What is an AHJ? The authority having jurisdiction, explained
NFPA definitions (paraphrased), Chapter 633 and s. 553.71, Florida Statutes, OSH Act
One building answers to several authorities at once; who each one is and where the law says so.
OSHA citations in hotels, condominiums and managed property, FY2026
U.S. DOL open data, OSHA datasets
The national data narrowed to hotel, condominium association, property-manager and commercial-landlord industry codes.
Florida Fire Prevention Code: edition in force and the 9th Edition date
Florida State Fire Marshal, Florida Administrative Register
8th Edition (2023) in force; the 9th Edition listed for December 31, 2026, proposed rule June 12, 2026, not yet adopted.
OSHA's most cited standards, FY2026
OSHA
Preliminary top ten, Oct 2025 to Aug 2026, read for building teams.
Most cited in the state-plan states, 2025
Cal/OSHA, WA L&I, MIOSHA, NCDOL, MNOSHA, KY OSH, HIOSH
California, Washington, Michigan, North Carolina, Minnesota, Kentucky and Hawaii lists, with counts where printed; Kentucky and Hawaii added November 8.
OSHA
Maximums, minimums and the gravity scale; no increase this year.
Florida's most cited lodging violations, FY 2025-26
Florida DBPR
The ten violations with counts, the balcony certificate, elevator accidents.
What Florida lodging inspectors refer to the fire marshal: three weeks of the DBPR fire list
Florida DBPR, Division of Hotels and Restaurants
The weekly fire-observation list read for the first time: 146 referrals in three weeks at 133 establishments; 57 were a trouble light on the fire alarm panel, 34 an expired or missing boiler certificate, 26 an extinguisher.
Florida milestone inspections and SIRS: the 2026 numbers
OPPAGA, Florida DBPR
54 buildings unsafe or uninhabitable; 7,836 SIRS filed against 16,104 accounts.
Florida underground storage tanks
Florida DEP
60.66% significant compliance among inspected facilities, FFY 2025.
CDC, NYC Health
Two hotel outbreaks in cold water and cisterns; New York's 31-day tower testing; in the September Bronx cluster, 8 of 10 towers ordered cleaned had a current test.
Cooling towers: where they are regulated
NY State, NYC, New Jersey, Garland TX, OSHA, ASHRAE
Every U.S. cooling tower law read from the statute; New Jersey's December 12, 2026 deadline; where there is none.
Sprinklers, smoke alarms and the fires that kill
NFPA Research, U.S. Fire Administration
57% of sprinkler failures were a shut valve; multiple-fatality fires happen at night in unsprinklered buildings; USFA's 2024 estimates: 343,000 residential fires, 2,975 deaths.
Recalled fire sprinklers still in service: CPSC's September 2026 notice
U.S. CPSC
35 million O-ring heads (mid-1970s to June 2001) and 8.4 million Omegas; the remedy closed in 2007; CPSC asks every building to inspect now, after a ten-death fire in 2025.
Smoke, CO and gas detectors CPSC says do not alarm: the 2026 warnings
U.S. CPSC, NYC DOB, Florida Statutes
Five warnings, July to October 29, 2026: 376,974 plug-in gas and CO detectors under 18 brand names with 91 failure reports, 51,825 combination alarms with seven; no seller agreed to a recall. Where a listed alarm is required: New York City by January 1, 2027, Florida s. 553.885.
Chicago's Inspector General on fire inspections
City of Chicago OIG
16.8% of buildings inspected in a year; a quarter of sprinklered premises with no test report on file.
Mayor's Office of Operations (DOB and FDNY chapters), NYC DOB, HPD
DOB violations 39,901 to 143,725, most for a missing Local Law 152 gas piping certification; FDNY violation orders 49,216; fire alarm inspection wait 45 days.
Pool and spa drownings, CPSC 2026 report
U.S. CPSC
1,128 child deaths in three years; condominium pools count as public.
U.S. EPA
127 lead-paint case conclusions, seven HFC import settlements, 538 self-disclosures.
How pages get here
Our research runner checks the publication pages of OSHA, the state occupational-safety plans, the U.S. Fire Administration, CDC, EPA, CPSC, Florida DBPR, DEP and the State Fire Marshal, and the building and fire departments of New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Clark County every week for a new report. A document that changes what a building team should check becomes a page; one that does not is logged. Missing something an agency published? Reply to any digest issue with the link.
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Reference only. These pages restate published official documents; they are not legal advice and not an assessment of any property. Mason Mathews Facility Assurance, LLC · how our monitor reads sources.