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California Department of General Services Cal/OSHA Inspections and Citations

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California Department of General Services: 5 inspections, 4 citations and $8,735 in penalties, latest opened Oct 20, 2026.

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.

California Department of General Services safety record at a glance

California Department of General Services has been the subject of 5 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Feb 7, 2017 and Oct 20, 2026. 3 of them were complaint inspections. 1 of them produced citations, 4 in all: 2 serious. Inspectors proposed $20,810 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $8,735. The largest single penalty, $8,735, came from an inspection opened Feb 7, 2017 in Chula Vista. That places the employer at #16,575 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties.

Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Public Administration; Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services. Worksites in West Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, Chula Vista.

Every inspection, newest first

Click a date for the citations in that inspection.

OpenedCityWhyResultProposedPenaltyClosed
Oct 20, 2026West SacramentoComplaintopen, no citations yet00open
Nov 24, 2025West SacramentoComplaintno citations00Feb 26, 2026
Apr 14, 2023San DiegoUnprogrammed relatedno citations00Oct 13, 2023
May 5, 2017San FranciscoComplaintno citations00Jun 8, 2017
Feb 7, 2017Chula VistaAccident4 citations 2 serious$20,810$8,735Sep 5, 2017

The rules this employer was cited under

Accidents investigated

Jan 17, 2017, Chula Vista. Employee sustains finger amputation when he slips and strike 1 hospitalized Inspection

Local pages: San Diego employment lawyer, San Francisco 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 California Department of General 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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