Employer record, Cal/OSHA and OSHA inspections

DS Waters of America Inc dba Sparkletts Cal/OSHA Inspections and Citations

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DS Waters of America Inc dba Sparkletts: 4 inspections, 8 citations and $4,745 in penalties, latest opened Jun 9, 2010.

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.

DS Waters of America Inc dba Sparkletts safety record at a glance

DS Waters of America Inc dba Sparkletts has been the subject of 4 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Dec 5, 2007 and Jun 9, 2010. 2 of them were accident inspections. All of them produced citations, 8 in all: 1 serious. Inspectors proposed $27,405 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $4,745. The largest single penalty, $2,700, came from an inspection opened Dec 5, 2007 in Los Angeles. That places the employer at #26,331 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties.

Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Manufacturing. Worksites in Los Angeles, Milpitas.

Every inspection, newest first

Click a date for the citations in that inspection.

OpenedCityWhyResultProposedPenaltyClosed
Jun 9, 2010Los AngelesAccident3 citations$19,110$1,100Aug 21, 2018
Oct 3, 2008MilpitasComplaint1 citation$420$420Jan 29, 2009
Feb 25, 2008MilpitasComplaint3 citations$1,125$525Jun 10, 2009
Dec 5, 2007Los AngelesAccident1 citation 1 serious$6,750$2,700Dec 15, 2008

Also recorded as: DS Waters of America, Inc.

The rules this employer was cited under

Accidents investigated

Jun 5, 2010, Los Angeles. Employee is severely crushed by conveyor machine 1 hospitalized Inspection
Oct 15, 2007, Los Angeles. Employee Fractures Foot When Struck by Machine Component 1 hospitalized Inspection

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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 DS Waters of America Inc dba Sparkletts

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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