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National Steel and Shipbuilding Company Cal/OSHA Inspections and Citations

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National Steel and Shipbuilding Company: 62 inspections, 58 citations and $262,578 in penalties, 1 death investigated, latest opened Apr 15, 2013.

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.

National Steel and Shipbuilding Company safety record at a glance

National Steel and Shipbuilding Company has been the subject of 62 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Feb 28, 2000 and Apr 15, 2013. 22 of them were complaint inspections. 26 of them produced citations, 58 in all: 23 serious, 1 willful, 4 repeat. Inspectors proposed $395,653 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $262,578. The largest single penalty, $70,000, came from an inspection opened May 26, 2010 in San Diego. 1 worker death was investigated. That places the employer at #70 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties. The same employer has 2 WARN layoff notices on file with the EDD.

Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Construction; Manufacturing; Information. Worksites in San Diego.

Every inspection, newest first

Click a date for the citations in that inspection.

OpenedCityWhyResultProposedPenaltyClosed
Apr 15, 2013San DiegoPlannedno citations00Apr 17, 2013
Feb 11, 2013San DiegoPlannedno citations00Feb 14, 2013
Feb 11, 2013San DiegoPlannedno citations00Feb 15, 2013
Mar 27, 2012San DiegoAccidentno citations00Aug 23, 2013
Nov 17, 2011San DiegoComplaintno citations00Dec 12, 2011
Oct 5, 2011San DiegoComplaintno citations00Apr 2, 2012
Sep 20, 2011San DiegoComplaintno citations00Oct 10, 2011
Aug 8, 2011San DiegoProgrammed relatedno citations00Jan 11, 2012
Jan 26, 2011San DiegoPlannedno citations00Feb 2, 2011
Jan 26, 2011San DiegoPlannedno citations00Feb 3, 2011
Jan 26, 2011San DiegoPlannedno citations00Feb 7, 2011
Jul 30, 2010San DiegoPlannedno citations00Aug 3, 2010
Jul 30, 2010San DiegoPlannedno citations00Aug 4, 2010
Jul 30, 2010San DiegoPlannedno citations00Aug 5, 2010
Jul 12, 2010San DiegoPlannedno citations00Sep 4, 2010
May 26, 2010San DiegoComplaint2 citations 1 willful 1 repeat$137,500$70,000Jun 4, 2015
May 26, 2010San DiegoComplaintno citations00Jul 13, 2012
May 26, 2010San DiegoComplaintno citations00Jul 2, 2010
Apr 5, 2010San DiegoAccidentno citations00Jun 24, 2010
Jan 26, 2010San DiegoPlannedno citations00Feb 10, 2010
Jan 26, 2010San DiegoPlannedno citations00Feb 17, 2010
Nov 17, 2009San DiegoAccident1 citation 1 serious$22,500$11,225Feb 10, 2012
Jun 1, 2009San DiegoAccidentno inspection made00Jun 1, 2009
Mar 13, 2009San DiegoAccident1 citation 1 serious$6,750$4,725Apr 2, 2015
May 1, 2008San DiegoFollow-upno citations00May 7, 2008
May 1, 2008San DiegoFollow-upno citations00May 7, 2008
Mar 14, 2008San DiegoComplaint1 citation$475$475Aug 19, 2009
Feb 21, 2008San DiegoComplaint1 citation$315$260Jul 9, 2009
Feb 21, 2008San DiegoAccidentno citations00Apr 24, 2008
Feb 15, 2008San DiegoComplaint4 citations$13,595$1,400Aug 19, 2009
Feb 15, 2008San DiegoComplaintno citations00Jun 23, 2009
Jan 24, 2008San DiegoComplaint1 citation 1 repeat$18,000$5,735Jul 9, 2009
Jan 15, 2008San DiegoComplaint1 citation 1 serious$36,000$25,000Jul 9, 2009
Nov 16, 2007San DiegoUnprogrammed related1 citation 1 repeat$18,000$18,000Aug 19, 2009
Nov 11, 2007San DiegoAccident7 citations 5 serious$10,925$10,925Mar 25, 2009
Oct 12, 2007San DiegoAccident1 citation 1 serious$18,000$18,000Jul 9, 2009
Oct 12, 2007San DiegoComplaint5 citations$1,480$1,480Aug 19, 2009
Jul 18, 2007San DiegoPlanned1 citation 1 repeat$18,000$18,000Jul 9, 2009
Jul 13, 2007San DiegoComplaint3 citations 1 serious$9,500$4,000Aug 23, 2010
Jun 22, 2007San DiegoAccidentdeath no citations00Aug 6, 2007
May 11, 2007San DiegoComplaint4 citations 1 serious$7,250$3,500Jul 14, 2008
Mar 21, 2007San DiegoPlannedno citations00Mar 23, 2007
Mar 13, 2007San DiegoAccident2 citations 1 serious$4,250$3,575Aug 19, 2009
Dec 6, 2006San DiegoAccident1 citation 1 serious$22,500$22,500Aug 19, 2009
Dec 6, 2006San DiegoAccident2 citations 1 serious$4,125$4,125Aug 19, 2009
Nov 28, 2006San DiegoComplaint4 citations$3,745$670Mar 18, 2009
Oct 26, 2006San DiegoUnprogrammed related1 citation 1 serious$18,000$18,000Jul 14, 2008
Oct 26, 2006San DiegoAccidentno inspection made00Oct 26, 2006
Aug 2, 2006San DiegoMonitoringno citations00Aug 7, 2006
Feb 21, 2006San DiegoComplaint2 citations$560$450Aug 13, 2009
Nov 28, 2005San DiegoReferralno citations00Dec 15, 2005
Nov 16, 2005San DiegoUnprogrammed relatedno inspection made00Nov 16, 2005
Oct 19, 2005San DiegoAccidentno citations00Dec 22, 2005
May 12, 2005San DiegoComplaintno citations00May 17, 2005
Mar 14, 2005San DiegoComplaintno citations00Mar 31, 2005
Sep 27, 2004San DiegoComplaint4 citations 3 serious$10,975$8,700Jun 27, 2005
Sep 27, 2004San DiegoMonitoring2 citations 1 serious$1,083$3,208Jun 27, 2005
Oct 21, 2003San DiegoReferralno citations00Oct 23, 2003
Jul 14, 2003San DiegoPlannedno citations00Jul 14, 2003
Jun 25, 2001San DiegoComplaint1 citation 1 serious$1,125$1,125Mar 29, 2002
Jun 25, 2001San DiegoComplaint2 citations00Mar 29, 2002
Feb 28, 2000San DiegoUnprogrammed related3 citations 3 serious$11,000$7,500Oct 11, 2001

Also recorded as: National Steel & Shipbuilding Company; National Steel & Shipbuilding CO.; National Steel & Shipbuilding CO.

The rules this employer was cited under

Accidents investigated

Mar 22, 2012, San Diego. Employee Fractures Ankle in T Beam Accident 1 hospitalized Inspection
Mar 31, 2010, San Diego. Employee Burns Arm with Welders Torch Inspection
Oct 30, 2009, San Diego. Employee's Hand Is Injected with Paint 1 hospitalized Inspection
Feb 13, 2009, San Diego. Employee Is Injured in Scissor Lift Accident Inspection
Feb 16, 2008, San Diego. Employee Is Injured When Struck by Falling Chock 1 hospitalized Inspection
Nov 10, 2007, San Diego. FLASH FIRE 4 hospitalized Inspection
Jun 20, 2007, San Diego. Employee Dies from Coronary Heart Disease 1 death Inspection
Mar 3, 2007, San Diego. Employee Is Paralyzed in Fall Off Scaffold 1 hospitalized Inspection
Nov 15, 2006, San Diego. Employee Is Injured While Operating Paint Gun 1 hospitalized Inspection
Nov 15, 2006, San Diego. Employee Is Injured in Steel Assembly Operation 1 hospitalized Inspection
Oct 12, 2005, San Diego. Employee Is Burned by Welding Torch 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 National Steel and Shipbuilding Company

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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