California Wine Caves Inc safety record at a glance
California Wine Caves Inc has been the subject of 44 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Oct 12, 2001 and Aug 19, 2008. 44 of them were planned inspections. 1 of them produced citations, 1 in all: 0 serious. Inspectors proposed $325 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $325. The largest single penalty, $325, came from an inspection opened May 15, 2002 in Placerville. That places the employer at #73,411 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties.
Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Construction. Worksites in St Helena, Napa, Santa Ynez, Hopland, Sonoma, Placerville, Fair Play, Fairplay.
Every inspection, newest first
Click a date for the citations in that inspection.
| Opened | City | Why | Result | Proposed | Penalty | Closed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 2008 | St Helena | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Sep 5, 2008 |
| Jun 10, 2008 | St Helena | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Jun 27, 2008 |
| Mar 28, 2008 | St Helena | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Apr 28, 2008 |
| Feb 4, 2008 | St Helena | Planned | no inspection made | 0 | 0 | Feb 13, 2008 |
| Aug 14, 2007 | Napa | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Sep 6, 2007 |
| Jun 1, 2007 | Napa | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Jun 15, 2007 |
| Mar 2, 2007 | Napa | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Mar 23, 2007 |
| Dec 20, 2006 | Napa | Planned | no inspection made | 0 | 0 | Dec 28, 2006 |
| Dec 19, 2006 | Napa | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Dec 29, 2006 |
| Nov 7, 2006 | Napa | Planned | no inspection made | 0 | 0 | Nov 13, 2006 |
| Oct 2, 2006 | Napa | Planned | no inspection made | 0 | 0 | Dec 6, 2006 |
| Jun 23, 2006 | Napa | Planned | no inspection made | 0 | 0 | Jun 29, 2006 |
| Jun 22, 2006 | Santa Ynez | Planned | no inspection made | 0 | 0 | Jun 22, 2006 |
| Dec 29, 2005 | Napa | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Jan 9, 2006 |
| Dec 8, 2005 | Santa Ynez | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Dec 15, 2005 |
| Oct 6, 2005 | Santa Ynez | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Oct 21, 2005 |
| Aug 2, 2005 | Santa Ynez | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Sep 29, 2005 |
| Apr 21, 2005 | Santa Ynez | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | May 12, 2005 |
| Feb 7, 2005 | Santa Ynez | Planned | no inspection made | 0 | 0 | Feb 25, 2005 |
| Oct 21, 2004 | Napa | Planned | no inspection made | 0 | 0 | Oct 25, 2004 |
| Jul 7, 2004 | Hopland | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Jul 19, 2004 |
| May 5, 2004 | Hopland | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | May 12, 2004 |
| Mar 1, 2004 | Hopland | Planned | no inspection made | 0 | 0 | Mar 4, 2004 |
| Nov 12, 2003 | Napa | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Nov 20, 2003 |
| Nov 12, 2003 | Sonoma | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Nov 18, 2003 |
| Aug 27, 2003 | Sonoma | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Sep 2, 2003 |
| Jun 5, 2003 | Sonoma | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Jun 13, 2003 |
| May 14, 2003 | Sonoma | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | May 22, 2003 |
| Apr 23, 2003 | Sonoma | Planned | no inspection made | 0 | 0 | Apr 29, 2003 |
| Apr 23, 2003 | Napa | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | May 5, 2003 |
| Jan 22, 2003 | Napa | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Jan 30, 2003 |
| Nov 18, 2002 | Napa | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Nov 25, 2002 |
| Aug 15, 2002 | Napa | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Aug 23, 2002 |
| Jul 25, 2002 | Napa | Planned | no inspection made | 0 | 0 | Jul 31, 2002 |
| May 15, 2002 | Placerville | Planned | 1 citation | $325 | $325 | Jul 2, 2002 |
| May 15, 2002 | Placerville | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Jun 11, 2002 |
| Mar 26, 2002 | Placerville | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Apr 23, 2002 |
| Mar 26, 2002 | Placerville | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Apr 23, 2002 |
| Mar 4, 2002 | Placerville | Planned | no inspection made | 0 | 0 | Apr 9, 2002 |
| Mar 4, 2002 | Placerville | Planned | no inspection made | 0 | 0 | Apr 9, 2002 |
| Feb 19, 2002 | Fair Play | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Mar 5, 2002 |
| Dec 18, 2001 | Fairplay | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Jan 9, 2002 |
| Nov 8, 2001 | Fairplay | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Nov 19, 2001 |
| Oct 12, 2001 | Fairplay | Planned | no inspection made | 0 | 0 | Oct 12, 2001 |
Also recorded as: California Wine Caves.
The rules this employer was cited under
- 8 CCR 8437: 1 citation, $325
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 Wine Caves Inc
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.