Employer record, Cal/OSHA and OSHA inspections

Nowhere Santa Monica, Inc. Cal/OSHA Inspections and Citations

Benjamin Eghbali, Esq.Legal notes by Benjamin Eghbali, Esq.,

Nowhere Santa Monica, Inc.: 2 inspections, 2 citations and $1,685 in penalties, latest opened May 21, 2021.

Every Cal/OSHA and federal OSHA inspection of a California workplace opened since 2000: 238,466 inspections of 122,853 employers, 447,188 citations, $586,238,760 in penalties, 5,717 deaths investigated.

Nowhere Santa Monica, Inc. safety record at a glance

Nowhere Santa Monica, Inc. has been the subject of 2 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Oct 5, 2018 and May 21, 2021. 2 of them were accident inspections. All of them produced citations, 2 in all: 0 serious. Inspectors proposed $1,685 in penalties, and that total stands. The largest single penalty, $935, came from an inspection opened Oct 5, 2018 in Santa Moni. That places the employer at #43,138 of 122,853 California employers in the database by penalties.

Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Retail Trade. Worksites in Santa Moni.

Every inspection, newest first

Click a date for the citations in that inspection.

OpenedCityWhyResultPenaltyClosed
May 21, 2021Santa MoniAccident1 citation$750Nov 19, 2021
Oct 5, 2018Santa MoniAccident1 citation$935Feb 10, 2021

Also recorded as: Nowhere Santa Monica, LLC.

The rules this employer was cited under

Accidents investigated

May 13, 2021, Santa Moni. Employee cuts finger on knife making salad Inspection
Aug 23, 2018, Santa Moni. Employee is splashed by hot water and sustains acute second 1 hospitalized Inspection

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. Penalty is the current figure after any appeal or settlement; where it was reduced, the amount the inspector first proposed is shown under it. "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 Nowhere Santa Monica, Inc.

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 4, 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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