James E. Roberts - Obayashi Corp. safety record at a glance
James E. Roberts - Obayashi Corp. has been the subject of 14 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Apr 24, 2003 and Feb 14, 2025. 6 of them were planned inspections. 7 of them produced citations, 16 in all: 4 serious. Inspectors proposed $20,310 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $16,900. The largest single penalty, $6,375, came from an inspection opened Feb 27, 2007 in San Francisco. That places the employer at #8,831 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties.
Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Construction. Worksites in Dublin, Vallejo, San Jose, San Francisco, Pleasanton.
Every inspection, newest first
Click a date for the citations in that inspection.
| Opened | City | Why | Result | Proposed | Penalty | Closed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 14, 2025 | Dublin | Unprogrammed related | no citations | 0 | 0 | Jun 11, 2025 |
| Mar 8, 2022 | Vallejo | Planned | 3 citations 2 serious | $9,400 | $6,175 | May 1, 2023 |
| Jul 30, 2020 | San Jose | Planned | 1 citation | $1,060 | $875 | Nov 16, 2020 |
| Feb 4, 2020 | San Francisco | Accident | no citations | 0 | 0 | Apr 22, 2020 |
| Mar 3, 2016 | San Francisco | Complaint | no citations | 0 | 0 | Apr 19, 2016 |
| Nov 24, 2015 | San Francisco | Accident | no citations | 0 | 0 | Apr 14, 2016 |
| Jul 21, 2014 | San Francisco | Planned | 1 citation | $935 | $935 | Sep 30, 2014 |
| Nov 14, 2012 | Pleasanton | Unprogrammed related | no citations | 0 | 0 | Nov 27, 2012 |
| Nov 3, 2010 | San Francisco | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Dec 18, 2010 |
| Jun 4, 2009 | San Francisco | Accident | 3 citations | $790 | $790 | Sep 19, 2009 |
| Feb 27, 2007 | San Francisco | Planned | 6 citations 2 serious | $6,375 | $6,375 | Oct 30, 2008 |
| Jan 31, 2007 | San Francisco | Referral | 1 citation | $1,125 | $1,125 | May 18, 2007 |
| Jan 30, 2007 | San Francisco | Referral | 1 citation | $625 | $625 | Mar 13, 2007 |
| Apr 24, 2003 | San Francisco | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | May 6, 2003 |
Also recorded as: James E. Roberts - Obayashi Corp; James E. Roberts - Obayashi Corp, JV; James E. Roberts - Obayashi Corporation; James E Roberts - Obayashi Corp.
The rules this employer was cited under
- 8 CCR 341: 4 citations, $3,560
- 8 CCR 1509, Injury and Illness Prevention Program (construction): 3 citations, $695
- 8 CCR 1675: 2 citations, $645
- 8 CCR 1626, Scaffolds: 2 citations, $375
- 8 CCR 1712: 1 citation, 1 serious, $2,925
- 8 CCR 1624: 1 citation, 1 serious, $2,925
- 8 CCR 1633: 1 citation, 1 serious, $2,700
- 8 CCR 1621, Railings and toeboards (construction): 1 citation, 1 serious, $2,700
Accidents investigated
Local pages: Vallejo employment lawyer, San Jose 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 James E. Roberts - Obayashi Corp.
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.