Garden Grove Unified School District safety record at a glance
Garden Grove Unified School District has been the subject of 7 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between May 18, 2011 and Jul 8, 2025. 5 of them were accident inspections. 5 of them produced citations, 9 in all: 1 serious. Inspectors proposed $19,230 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $15,460. The largest single penalty, $6,560, came from an inspection opened Jul 8, 2025 in Garden Grove. That places the employer at #9,937 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties. It also appears in 1 federal wage and hour case.
Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Educational Services. Worksites in Garden Grove, Santa Ana.
Every inspection, newest first
Click a date for the citations in that inspection.
| Opened | City | Why | Result | Proposed | Penalty | Closed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 2025 | Garden Grove | Accident | 5 citations 1 serious | $8,200 | $6,560 | Apr 29, 2026 |
| Nov 7, 2016 | Garden Grove | Complaint | no citations | 0 | 0 | Feb 1, 2017 |
| Apr 25, 2016 | Santa Ana | Referral | 1 citation | $5,000 | $5,000 | Jun 26, 2017 |
| Apr 20, 2016 | Garden Grove | Accident | 1 citation | $5,000 | $3,000 | Jul 17, 2017 |
| Apr 18, 2016 | Garden Grove | Accident | 1 citation | $280 | $150 | May 15, 2017 |
| May 14, 2014 | Garden Grove | Accident | 1 citation | $750 | $750 | Jun 28, 2014 |
| May 18, 2011 | Garden Grove | Accident | no citations | 0 | 0 | Jun 13, 2011 |
The rules this employer was cited under
- 8 CCR 342, Reporting serious injuries and deaths: 2 citations, $8,000
- 8 CCR 3314, Lockout and cleaning of machinery: 2 citations, 1 serious, $5,960
- 8 CCR 3203, Injury and Illness Prevention Program: 2 citations, $1,050
- 8 CCR 3380, Personal protective equipment: 1 citation, $300
- 8 CCR 6151, Portable fire extinguishers: 1 citation, $150
- 8 CCR 340: 1 citation
Accidents investigated
Local pages: Garden Grove employment lawyer, Santa Ana 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 Garden Grove Unified School 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.