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Jiffy Lube Cal/OSHA Inspections and Citations

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Jiffy Lube: 15 inspections, 30 citations and $14,325 in penalties, latest opened Oct 16, 2020.

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.

Jiffy Lube safety record at a glance

Jiffy Lube has been the subject of 15 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Sep 1, 2000 and Oct 16, 2020. 11 of them were complaint inspections. 11 of them produced citations, 30 in all: 2 serious, 1 repeat. Inspectors proposed $19,925 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $14,325. The largest single penalty, $5,560, came from an inspection opened Oct 16, 2020 in Westlake Village. That places the employer at #10,883 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties. It also appears in 3 federal wage and hour cases.

Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Other Services (except Public Administration); Retail Trade. Worksites in Westlake Village, Daly City, Merced, Stockton, Benicia, Lake Forest, Citrus Heights, Clovis.

Every inspection, newest first

Click a date for the citations in that inspection.

OpenedCityWhyResultProposedPenaltyClosed
Oct 16, 2020Westlake VillageAccident2 citations$5,560$5,560open
Oct 12, 2015Daly CityComplaint3 citations$750$750Jan 25, 2016
Mar 20, 2015MercedComplaint1 citation00Mar 20, 2015
Dec 22, 2010StocktonComplaintno citations00Jan 21, 2011
Mar 11, 2010BeniciaComplaint3 citations 1 serious$4,750$3,000Jul 26, 2010
Mar 21, 2008Lake ForestComplaint2 citations$170$170Feb 24, 2010
Sep 6, 2007Citrus HeightsComplaintno citations00Mar 6, 2008
Jul 20, 2007ClovisComplaint3 citations$745$745Oct 18, 2007
Jun 2, 2006Paso RoblesAccidentno citations00Jun 30, 2006
May 1, 2002Walnut CreekComplaint1 citation$225$225Feb 10, 2003
Dec 20, 2001NapaFollow-upno citations00Dec 24, 2001
Jun 25, 2001PalmdaleComplaint4 citations$430$430Mar 26, 2009
Apr 26, 2001San DiegoComplaint8 citations 1 serious$5,270$2,830Feb 28, 2003
Sep 18, 2000Lake ForestComplaint2 citations$450$450Nov 1, 2001
Sep 1, 2000NapaReferral1 citation 1 repeat$1,575$165Dec 24, 2001

The rules this employer was cited under

Accidents investigated

May 31, 2020, Westlake Village. Employee incurs multiple injuries when pinned under car 1 hospitalized Inspection

Local pages: Daly City 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 Jiffy Lube

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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