Latest inspections with citations
The 40 most recently opened California inspections that have produced citations so far, newest first, through Oct 27, 2026. The Labor Department publishes the file daily and we reload it weekly; a recent inspection can gain citations for months. Click an employer for its full record, or a date for the citations in that inspection.
Biggest penalties of the last two years
The 200 employers with the most penalties, all years →
Workplace deaths investigated in the last 12 months
Inspections opened after a worker died, with the investigators' one-line description of the event where the accident file has reached the database. Penalties are those assessed so far.
No fatality inspections in the last 12 months have reached the database yet.
Every workplace death investigated since 2000 →
The safety rules cited most often
Title 8 sections by number of citations since 2000. The Injury and Illness Prevention Program rule is first almost every year because it applies to every employer and is the first thing an inspector asks for.
All rules with 25 or more citations →
Inspections by industry
All years, ranked by inspections. The share with citations shows how often an inspection in that industry found a violation.
Inspections by county
Counties are assigned from the worksite ZIP code. Ranked by inspections.
- Los Angeles46,968 inspections, 112,177 citations, $153,401,935
- San Diego14,546 inspections, 36,645 citations, $45,257,775
- Alameda13,513 inspections, 30,590 citations, $40,092,096
- Orange13,397 inspections, 28,999 citations, $39,480,817
- Sacramento11,438 inspections, 15,078 citations, $18,972,519
- San Bernardino10,563 inspections, 22,582 citations, $30,600,017
- Riverside9,946 inspections, 18,020 citations, $26,172,317
- Fresno8,563 inspections, 12,011 citations, $18,694,154
- Santa Clara7,696 inspections, 15,144 citations, $18,609,088
- Kern7,307 inspections, 11,504 citations, $17,671,690
- San Joaquin7,227 inspections, 8,396 citations, $9,770,795
- San Francisco6,858 inspections, 15,677 citations, $14,311,638
- Contra Costa6,058 inspections, 8,975 citations, $13,986,901
- Stanislaus4,820 inspections, 6,235 citations, $6,916,678
- Ventura4,340 inspections, 8,325 citations, $10,623,008
- San Mateo4,241 inspections, 8,530 citations, $9,359,688
- Tulare4,148 inspections, 6,117 citations, $9,256,451
- Butte4,027 inspections, 4,673 citations, $4,626,487
- Sonoma3,896 inspections, 6,486 citations, $7,643,891
- Shasta3,516 inspections, 4,300 citations, $3,360,403
- Monterey3,387 inspections, 5,507 citations, $7,949,262
- Placer3,151 inspections, 3,735 citations, $4,759,252
- Solano3,075 inspections, 4,719 citations, $7,603,086
- Yolo2,914 inspections, 4,059 citations, $7,001,789
- Napa2,499 inspections, 3,276 citations, $3,880,924
- Santa Barbara2,484 inspections, 4,691 citations, $5,407,515
- Merced2,479 inspections, 2,642 citations, $3,445,042
- Marin1,967 inspections, 3,450 citations, $3,939,386
- Imperial1,963 inspections, 4,544 citations, $5,619,663
- Humboldt1,850 inspections, 2,467 citations, $2,630,785
- San Luis Obispo1,818 inspections, 3,420 citations, $3,709,699
- Santa Cruz1,483 inspections, 2,839 citations, $3,310,353
- Madera1,344 inspections, 1,961 citations, $3,090,380
- Tehama1,291 inspections, 1,602 citations, $1,825,785
- Kings1,255 inspections, 1,762 citations, $3,332,455
- El Dorado1,250 inspections, 1,835 citations, $2,206,302
- Sutter1,129 inspections, 1,656 citations, $2,001,048
- Yuba944 inspections, 1,174 citations, $1,525,895
- Nevada840 inspections, 1,178 citations, $1,783,016
- Glenn762 inspections, 1,038 citations, $1,082,897
- Mendocino737 inspections, 1,209 citations, $1,551,976
- Siskiyou697 inspections, 896 citations, $977,601
- San Benito663 inspections, 1,001 citations, $1,346,091
- Tuolumne642 inspections, 627 citations, $790,971
- Colusa557 inspections, 744 citations, $1,476,626
- Amador529 inspections, 535 citations, $518,384
- Lake466 inspections, 705 citations, $763,601
- Lassen431 inspections, 555 citations, $434,532
- Plumas372 inspections, 407 citations, $519,840
- Del Norte359 inspections, 500 citations, $541,482
- Mono319 inspections, 328 citations, $499,165
- Calaveras295 inspections, 300 citations, $261,415
- Inyo206 inspections, 247 citations, $307,148
- Mariposa202 inspections, 178 citations, $152,226
- Trinity181 inspections, 203 citations, $317,325
- Modoc165 inspections, 223 citations, $221,103
- Sierra121 inspections, 80 citations, $138,330
- Alpine62 inspections, 44 citations, $63,105
Inspections by year opened
| Year | Inspections | With citations | Citations | Serious | Penalties | Deaths |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 7,634 | 1,996 | 6,053 | 1,108 | $13,664,910 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8,012 | 4,889 | 14,563 | 3,335 | $40,292,136 | 42 |
| 2024 | 6,990 | 4,284 | 12,100 | 2,672 | $30,908,861 | 242 |
| 2023 | 7,467 | 4,964 | 14,389 | 2,982 | $27,793,935 | 237 |
| 2022 | 6,975 | 4,944 | 14,142 | 2,894 | $28,039,933 | 250 |
| 2021 | 6,159 | 4,018 | 10,813 | 2,158 | $22,479,277 | 447 |
| 2020 | 6,703 | 4,127 | 11,722 | 2,772 | $23,817,315 | 521 |
| 2019 | 8,386 | 5,681 | 18,045 | 3,749 | $28,920,822 | 225 |
| 2018 | 8,561 | 5,935 | 19,356 | 3,989 | $33,188,941 | 230 |
| 2017 | 8,803 | 5,911 | 19,880 | 4,273 | $32,174,372 | 207 |
| 2016 | 8,611 | 5,840 | 21,351 | 4,372 | $31,177,263 | 195 |
| 2015 | 8,603 | 5,701 | 19,071 | 3,716 | $25,886,319 | 199 |
| 2014 | 8,359 | 5,204 | 17,039 | 3,038 | $19,086,863 | 169 |
| 2013 | 8,301 | 4,987 | 15,824 | 3,128 | $17,409,792 | 206 |
| 2012 | 8,797 | 5,007 | 15,867 | 2,994 | $17,754,891 | 178 |
| 2011 | 9,280 | 4,971 | 15,793 | 2,603 | $15,777,269 | 188 |
| 2010 | 9,718 | 5,128 | 16,553 | 2,738 | $14,333,056 | 172 |
| 2009 | 9,521 | 5,128 | 16,484 | 2,820 | $13,508,192 | 173 |
| 2008 | 10,569 | 5,733 | 18,945 | 3,180 | $16,095,937 | 203 |
| 2007 | 10,482 | 5,866 | 19,147 | 3,452 | $15,316,492 | 215 |
| 2006 | 9,790 | 5,558 | 17,960 | 3,613 | $16,167,910 | 248 |
| 2005 | 9,376 | 5,038 | 17,004 | 3,321 | $15,596,909 | 204 |
| 2004 | 8,915 | 4,650 | 15,159 | 3,435 | $15,393,534 | 227 |
| 2003 | 9,957 | 5,398 | 17,561 | 3,714 | $17,810,838 | 199 |
| 2002 | 10,754 | 6,024 | 19,493 | 4,082 | $18,102,006 | 175 |
| 2001 | 10,801 | 6,403 | 21,519 | 4,267 | $18,477,466 | 187 |
| 2000 | 10,942 | 6,374 | 21,355 | 3,910 | $17,063,521 | 178 |
How to read a Cal/OSHA record
California runs its own workplace safety program, Cal/OSHA, under a federally approved state plan (Labor Code 6300 and following). Its inspections, citations and penalties are reported into the same federal database as federal OSHA's, which is where this tracker reads them. Federal OSHA itself inspects only a few California workplaces, mainly federal agencies, maritime work and tribal land.
- Why an inspection happens
- "Complaint" means a worker or someone else reported a hazard; "Accident" or "Fatality or catastrophe" means a death, a hospitalization or a serious injury triggered it (employers must report those to Cal/OSHA within 8 hours, Labor Code 6409.1); "Referral" comes from another agency or a media report; "Planned" and "Programmed" inspections target high-hazard industries such as construction, agriculture and warehousing; "Follow-up" checks whether earlier citations were fixed.
- What a citation is
- Each citation names a section of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations (or 29 CFR for federal cases) the employer violated. General violations have no direct relationship to death or serious harm. Serious means a realistic possibility of death or serious physical harm (Labor Code 6432). Willful means the employer knew the rule and ignored it, or showed plain indifference. Repeat means the same or a substantially similar violation within five years. A single inspection often produces several citations.
- Penalties
- For citations issued since January 1, 2025, the latest schedule DIR has announced, Cal/OSHA's maximums are $16,285 for a general or regulatory violation, $25,000 for a serious violation and $162,851 for a willful or repeat violation, with an $11,632 minimum for willful ones (Labor Code 6427 to 6429, adjusted each January). "Proposed" is what the inspector assessed; "penalty" is the current figure after any informal conference, appeal or settlement, which is often lower.
- Appeals
- An employer has 15 working days from receipt of a citation to appeal to the Occupational Safety and Health Appeals Board (Labor Code 6600). A citation under appeal shows a contest date here and no final order; one that was dropped on appeal shows as deleted and is not counted.
- Abatement
- The employer must correct the hazard by the abatement date on the citation and certify that it did. A follow-up inspection that finds the hazard still there brings a failure-to-abate penalty for each day.
- Open and closed
- An inspection stays open while citations are being issued or appealed, sometimes for a year or more. "Open, no citations yet" means the file has not closed; it is not a clean result until it does.
- What is not here
- Workers' compensation claims, private lawsuits, Cal/OSHA complaint letters that did not lead to an on-site inspection, and inspections of worksites outside California. A clean page is not proof of a safe workplace; it means no inspection found a violation.
Your rights when the hazard is real
You can report it, and the employer may not touch you for it. Any worker can file a confidential complaint with the nearest Cal/OSHA district office, by phone, online or in writing, and can ask that the employer not be told who complained. Firing, demoting, cutting hours, threatening or otherwise punishing a worker for a safety complaint, for reporting an injury, for testifying or for asking for a Cal/OSHA inspection is unlawful retaliation under Labor Code 6310; a complaint to the Labor Commissioner's Retaliation Complaint Investigation unit must be filed within one year, and a civil lawsuit is also available.
You can refuse work that would violate a safety standard and create a real and apparent hazard to you or your coworkers, and the employer may not retaliate for that refusal (Labor Code 6311). Say why in writing if you can, name the rule or the hazard, and keep a copy.
Every employer must have a written Injury and Illness Prevention Program (Title 8, section 3203), train workers on the hazards of their jobs, provide protective equipment at no cost, and give workers access to the exposure and medical records that concern them. Outdoor workplaces need a heat illness plan with water, shade and rest (section 3395); indoor ones above 82 degrees need the indoor rule (section 3396); and since July 2024 nearly every employer needs a workplace violence prevention plan (Labor Code 6401.9).
An injury itself is a workers' compensation claim, handled separately from anything on this page. What this firm handles is the employment side: the retaliation, the firing after the injury report, the wage and hour problems that usually travel with an unsafe workplace. Free, confidential review: (800) 371-3088.
Questions people ask when they find their employer here
It is evidence that the employer knew about a hazard and what the rule required, which matters in a retaliation case (why did they fire the person who complained about the thing Cal/OSHA then cited?) and in any claim where the employer's knowledge is an element. It is not by itself a claim for money: workplace injuries are compensated through workers' compensation, and the Labor Code 6310 remedy is for the retaliation, not the hazard.
File a retaliation complaint with the Labor Commissioner within one year (Labor Code 6310 and 98.7), keep every message about the complaint and the firing, and talk to a lawyer about a civil case, which can add lost wages, emotional distress and attorney's fees. Since 2024, discipline within 90 days of a protected complaint is presumed retaliatory in several Labor Code claims; the Cal/OSHA inspection file, which you can request, often documents the timeline.
Yes. Cal/OSHA inspection files are public records once the case is closed, with complainant identities and some medical details removed. Request the file from the district office that did the inspection, named on the citation, or through DIR's Public Records Act process. The database row here gives you the activity number to cite.
Most employers appeal or take an informal conference, and penalties are routinely reduced for size, good faith, history and prompt abatement, or traded for a reclassification of the citation. The proposed figure shows what the inspector found; the current figure shows what the employer ended up owing.
From the U.S. Department of Labor's open data portal, OSHA enforcement datasets (inspection, violation, accident and accident injury), which the Department updates daily from the shared federal and state-plan case system. We reload the California rows every week and show the latest inspection date above. Cal/OSHA's own establishment search on dir.ca.gov shows the same cases.
Sources: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA inspection dataset and OSHA violation dataset; California Department of Industrial Relations, how to file a Cal/OSHA complaint, 2025 penalty amounts, Occupational Safety and Health Appeals Board, retaliation complaints; Labor Code 6310, 6311, 6409.1, 6432, 6600; 8 CCR 3203, 3395, 3396.
About this data: Records come from the U.S. Department of Labor's OSHA enforcement datasets (inspection, violation, accident and accident injury tables), which carry Cal/OSHA's state-plan inspections alongside federal ones. We load every inspection of a California worksite opened since January 1, 2000 and refresh it weekly. Employer names, addresses and industry codes are as the inspecting office recorded them; similar names are grouped where they clearly refer to the same employer. A citation can be reduced, vacated or withdrawn on appeal, and an inspection can stay open for months, so a record can change. Penalties shown as "current" reflect the latest status in the federal file. This page is public information about the employer's regulatory record, not legal advice and not a statement that any person was harmed or any law broken beyond what the record states.