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Abm Engineering Services Cal/OSHA Inspections and Citations

Benjamin Eghbali, Esq.Legal notes by Benjamin Eghbali, Esq.,

Abm Engineering Services: 6 inspections, 2 citations and $745 in penalties, latest opened Oct 12, 2010.

Every Cal/OSHA and federal OSHA inspection of a California workplace opened since 2000: 238,466 inspections of 122,854 employers, 447,188 citations, $586,238,760 in penalties, 5,717 deaths investigated.

Abm Engineering Services safety record at a glance

Abm Engineering Services has been the subject of 6 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Aug 7, 2003 and Oct 12, 2010. 5 of them were accident inspections. 2 of them produced citations, 2 in all: 0 serious. Inspectors proposed $745 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $745. The largest single penalty, $560, came from an inspection opened Oct 12, 2010 in Los Angeles. That places the employer at #58,649 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties.

Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services; Administrative and Support and Waste Management Services; Construction. Worksites in Los Angeles, San Francisco, South San Francisco, Pasadena.

Every inspection, newest first

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OpenedCityWhyResultProposedPenaltyClosed
Oct 12, 2010Los AngelesAccident1 citation$560$560Mar 12, 2013
May 27, 2010San FranciscoAccidentno citations00Jun 8, 2010
Nov 6, 2008Los AngelesUnprogrammed relatedno citations00Mar 26, 2009
May 20, 2005South San FranciscoAccidentno citations00Aug 29, 2005
Jul 13, 2004PasadenaAccidentno citations00Nov 1, 2004
Aug 7, 2003Los AngelesAccident1 citation$185$185Nov 6, 2006

Also recorded as: Abm Engineering Services Company.

The rules this employer was cited under

Accidents investigated

Oct 7, 2010, Los Angeles. Employee's Arm Is Crushed by Personnel Lift Mechanism 1 hospitalized Inspection
May 5, 2010, San Francisco. Employees Finger Is Amputated When Caught in Belt and Sheave Inspection
Mar 30, 2005, South San Francisco. Employee Lacerates Finger in Air Handling Unit Inspection
Jun 28, 2004, Pasadena. Employee's Toe Is Injured by Falling Manhole Cover 1 hospitalized Inspection
Jul 5, 2003, Los Angeles. Employee burned by arc blast after contact with energized bu 1 hospitalized Inspection

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How to read this record

Each row is one inspection by Cal/OSHA (or, rarely, federal OSHA) of one worksite. Why is the reason it was opened. Proposed is the penalty the inspector assessed; penalty is the current figure after any appeal or settlement. "Serious" means a realistic possibility of death or serious harm; "willful" and "repeat" carry penalties up to $162,851 each.

Citations document that the employer was told, in writing, what the rule required and when. That knowledge is often the center of a retaliation case: a worker who complained about the hazard an inspector later cited, and was then fired or cut, has a Labor Code 6310 claim, with lost wages and attorney's fees.

Full explainer: how to read a Cal/OSHA record.

If you work, or worked, at Abm Engineering Services

Write down what you reported, to whom and when, and what changed afterward: shifts, pay, duties, write-ups. Request the inspection file from the Cal/OSHA district office using the activity number on the inspection page. An injury goes through workers' compensation; a firing, demotion or threat after a safety complaint or injury report is an employment claim with a one-year deadline at the Labor Commissioner (Labor Code 6310) and a longer one in court. Free, confidential review: (800) 371-3088 or send what you have.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor OSHA enforcement data, California inspections. Record last checked Nov 1, 2026. Back to the safety tracker.

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.

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