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Coast Community College District Cal/OSHA Inspections and Citations

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Coast Community College District: 7 inspections, 5 citations and $5,880 in penalties, latest opened Sep 19, 2014.

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.

Coast Community College District safety record at a glance

Coast Community College District has been the subject of 7 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Aug 28, 2001 and Sep 19, 2014. 5 of them were accident inspections. 3 of them produced citations, 5 in all: 0 serious. Inspectors proposed $5,880 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $5,880. The largest single penalty, $5,000, came from an inspection opened Nov 21, 2011 in Costa Mesa. That places the employer at #21,932 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties.

Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Educational Services. Worksites in Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach.

Every inspection, newest first

Click a date for the citations in that inspection.

OpenedCityWhyResultProposedPenaltyClosed
Sep 19, 2014Costa MesaAccidentno citations00Nov 10, 2014
Oct 24, 2013Costa MesaAccident1 citation$280$280Jul 23, 2014
Sep 18, 2012Costa MesaAccidentno citations00Jan 15, 2013
Jan 18, 2012Costa MesaAccidentno citations00Feb 22, 2012
Nov 21, 2011Costa MesaAccident1 citation$5,000$5,000Jan 11, 2019
Jul 21, 2009Huntington BeachComplaint3 citations$600$600Feb 17, 2011
Aug 28, 2001Costa MesaComplaintno citations00Feb 21, 2002

The rules this employer was cited under

Accidents investigated

Sep 3, 2013, Costa Mesa. Employee Lacerates Fingertip in Slicer Machine Inspection
Aug 17, 2012, Costa Mesa. Employee Is Injured in Fall from a Tree 1 hospitalized Inspection
Jan 4, 2012, Costa Mesa. Employee Is Injured in Trip and Fall 1 hospitalized Inspection
Nov 15, 2011, Costa Mesa. Employee Stumbles, Falls and Injures Hip 1 hospitalized Inspection

Local pages: Costa Mesa employment lawyer, Huntington Beach 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 Coast Community College District

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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