Bay Area Rapid Transit safety record at a glance
Bay Area Rapid Transit has been the subject of 11 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Nov 14, 2003 and Sep 24, 2025. 10 of them were complaint inspections. 4 of them produced citations, 16 in all: 1 serious. Inspectors proposed $12,885 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $9,860. The largest single penalty, $8,000, came from an inspection opened Feb 19, 2019 in San Francisco. That places the employer at #15,373 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties. It also appears in 1 federal wage and hour case.
Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Transportation and Warehousing; Construction; Public Administration. Worksites in Pittsburg, San Francisco, Richmond, Concord, Hayward, Berkeley, Oakland.
Every inspection, newest first
Click a date for the citations in that inspection.
| Opened | City | Why | Result | Proposed | Penalty | Closed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 24, 2025 | Pittsburg | Complaint | no citations | 0 | 0 | Mar 16, 2026 |
| Apr 16, 2019 | San Francisco | Complaint | 3 citations | $2,400 | $800 | Oct 11, 2021 |
| Feb 19, 2019 | San Francisco | Complaint | 9 citations 1 serious | $9,000 | $8,000 | Jul 19, 2023 |
| May 21, 2014 | Richmond | Complaint | no citations | 0 | 0 | Jun 18, 2014 |
| Jan 27, 2010 | Concord | Complaint | 3 citations | $635 | $210 | Sep 9, 2010 |
| Oct 6, 2009 | Hayward | Complaint | no citations | 0 | 0 | Mar 11, 2010 |
| Sep 22, 2009 | Hayward | Unprogrammed related | 1 citation | $850 | $850 | May 13, 2010 |
| Jun 27, 2008 | Hayward | Complaint | no citations | 0 | 0 | Jul 9, 2008 |
| Aug 31, 2007 | Berkeley | Complaint | no citations | 0 | 0 | Feb 29, 2008 |
| Apr 19, 2006 | Oakland | Complaint | no citations | 0 | 0 | May 23, 2006 |
| Nov 14, 2003 | Richmond | Complaint | no citations | 0 | 0 | Jan 30, 2004 |
Also recorded as: Bay Area Rapid Transit aka BART.
The rules this employer was cited under
- 8 CCR 2340.22: 2 citations, $1,050
- 8 CCR 1952: 2 citations
- 8 CCR 5162, Emergency eyewash and shower: 2 citations
- 8 CCR 4050: 1 citation, 1 serious, $7,200
- 8 CCR 2320.11: 1 citation, $800
- 8 CCR 2340.26: 1 citation, $300
- 8 CCR 3362, General sanitation requirements: 1 citation, $210
- 8 CCR 2340.17: 1 citation, $150
Local pages: San Francisco employment lawyer, Richmond employment lawyer.
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 Bay Area Rapid Transit
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.