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Arrowhead Products Cal/OSHA Inspections and Citations

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Arrowhead Products: 14 inspections, 19 citations and $94,930 in penalties, latest opened Jan 5, 2022.

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.

Arrowhead Products safety record at a glance

Arrowhead Products has been the subject of 14 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Feb 7, 2002 and Jan 5, 2022. 8 of them were accident inspections. 7 of them produced citations, 19 in all: 8 serious. Inspectors proposed $143,493 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $94,930. The largest single penalty, $30,450, came from an inspection opened Dec 16, 2015 in Los Alamitos. That places the employer at #485 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties.

Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Manufacturing. Worksites in Los Alamitos.

Every inspection, newest first

Click a date for the citations in that inspection.

OpenedCityWhyResultProposedPenaltyClosed
Jan 5, 2022Los AlamitosAccident2 citations$5,000$3,750Aug 23, 2022
May 22, 2018Los AlamitosAccident2 citations 1 serious$14,513$9,135Dec 10, 2018
Feb 5, 2018Los AlamitosComplaint1 citation$4200Dec 4, 2018
Feb 21, 2017Los AlamitosComplaintno citations00Jul 17, 2017
Jan 6, 2017Los AlamitosAccident4 citations 3 serious$38,005$27,660Sep 27, 2017
Feb 12, 2016Los AlamitosReferralno citations00Feb 12, 2016
Dec 16, 2015Los AlamitosAccident6 citations 3 serious$61,245$30,450Aug 8, 2017
Aug 7, 2015Los AlamitosComplaintno citations00Jan 28, 2016
May 7, 2012Los AlamitosAccidentno citations00Sep 23, 2013
Sep 21, 2011Los AlamitosAccidentno citations00Nov 2, 2011
Oct 28, 2010Los AlamitosAccident2 citations 1 serious$18,750$18,375Aug 31, 2011
Oct 28, 2010Los AlamitosAccident2 citations$5,560$5,560Aug 31, 2011
Aug 8, 2008Los AlamitosComplaintno citations00Jan 14, 2010
Feb 7, 2002Los AlamitosComplaintno citations00Aug 28, 2002

Also recorded as: Arrowhead Products Corp.; Arrowhead Products Corporation.

The rules this employer was cited under

Accidents investigated

Dec 4, 2021, Los Alamitos. Employee fractures arm when struck by metal 1 hospitalized Inspection
Apr 12, 2018, Los Alamitos. Employee's left hand is crushed in hydraulic pipe bending ma Inspection
Apr 16, 2012, Los Alamitos. Employee Fractures Leg When He Strikes Fence Post 1 hospitalized Inspection
Oct 13, 2010, Los Alamitos. Employee Falls from Chair and Fractures Leg 1 hospitalized Inspection
Sep 29, 2010, Los Alamitos. Employee Gets Finger Caught in Punch Press Machine 1 hospitalized Inspection

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 Arrowhead Products

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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