CA State Hospitals - Atascadero (DSH) safety record at a glance
CA State Hospitals - Atascadero (DSH) has been the subject of 8 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Sep 15, 2014 and Oct 5, 2026. 4 of them were accident inspections. 4 of them produced citations, 8 in all: 1 serious. Inspectors proposed $38,625 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $9,545. The largest single penalty, $4,800, came from an inspection opened Sep 15, 2014 in Monterey Park. 2 worker deaths were investigated. That places the employer at #15,662 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties.
Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Health Care and Social Assistance. Worksites in Napa, Atascadero, Sacramento, Monterey Park.
Every inspection, newest first
Click a date for the citations in that inspection.
| Opened | City | Why | Result | Proposed | Penalty | Closed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 2026 | Napa | Complaint | open, no citations yet | 0 | 0 | open |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Atascadero | Accident | no citations | 0 | 0 | Feb 18, 2025 |
| May 9, 2024 | Atascadero | Accident | 1 citation | $635 | $635 | Oct 11, 2024 |
| Jun 29, 2023 | Atascadero | Fatality or catastrophe | death 1 citation | $5,000 | $3,500 | Oct 7, 2024 |
| May 18, 2023 | Atascadero | Accident | no citations | 0 | 0 | Aug 3, 2023 |
| Jan 11, 2022 | Atascadero | Fatality or catastrophe | death no citations | 0 | 0 | Jun 24, 2022 |
| Aug 10, 2018 | Sacramento | Complaint | 2 citations | $740 | $610 | Apr 16, 2019 |
| Sep 15, 2014 | Monterey Park | Accident | 4 citations 1 serious | $32,250 | $4,800 | open |
Also recorded as: CA State Hospitals - Metropolitan State Hospital; CA State Hospitals; CA State Hospitals - Atascadero; CA State Hospitals - Napa.
The rules this employer was cited under
- 8 CCR 342, Reporting serious injuries and deaths: 2 citations, $6,500
- 8 CCR 3395, Heat illness prevention, outdoor: 2 citations, 1 serious, $1,800
- 8 CCR 3203, Injury and Illness Prevention Program: 2 citations, $350
- 8 CCR 3342, Workplace violence prevention plan: 1 citation, $635
- 8 CCR 5142: 1 citation, $260
Accidents investigated
Local pages: Sacramento 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 CA State Hospitals - Atascadero (DSH)
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.