Oakland Unified School District safety record at a glance
Oakland Unified School District has been the subject of 17 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Mar 4, 2005 and Sep 25, 2026. 13 of them were complaint inspections. 9 of them produced citations, 13 in all: 0 serious. Inspectors proposed $6,785 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $5,600. The largest single penalty, $1,135, came from an inspection opened Sep 29, 2011 in Oakland. That places the employer at #22,879 of 122,853 California employers in the database by penalties. It also appears in 2 federal wage and hour cases.
Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Educational Services; Construction. Worksites in Oakland.
Every inspection, newest first
Click a date for the citations in that inspection.
| Opened | City | Why | Result | Penalty | Closed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 2026 | Oakland | Complaint | open, no citations yet | $0 | open |
| Sep 29, 2025 | Oakland | Complaint | no citations | $0 | Nov 19, 2025 |
| Sep 22, 2025 | Oakland | Accident | 1 citation | $420 | Jun 25, 2026 |
| Apr 21, 2025 | Oakland | Accident | 1 citation | $1,125 | Aug 11, 2025 |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Oakland | Accident | 1 citation | $375 | Apr 29, 2026 |
| Oct 3, 2019 | Oakland | Complaint | 1 citation | $465 | Aug 28, 2020 |
| Jul 8, 2015 | Oakland | Complaint | 1 citation | $280 | Aug 31, 2015 |
| Jan 16, 2013 | Oakland | Accident | 2 citations | $560 | Sep 12, 2013 |
| Jan 24, 2012 | Oakland | Complaint | 2 citations | $790 $1,260 proposed | Sep 5, 2012 |
| Sep 29, 2011 | Oakland | Complaint | 3 citations | $1,135 $1,600 proposed | Apr 10, 2012 |
| Sep 26, 2011 | Oakland | Complaint | 1 citation | $450 $700 proposed | May 23, 2012 |
| Feb 11, 2011 | Oakland | Complaint | no citations | $0 | Mar 7, 2011 |
| Jun 7, 2010 | Oakland | Complaint | no citations | $0 | Jun 25, 2010 |
| Sep 25, 2007 | Oakland | Complaint | no citations | $0 | Oct 11, 2007 |
| Sep 22, 2006 | Oakland | Complaint | no inspection made | $0 | Sep 26, 2006 |
| Apr 27, 2006 | Oakland | Complaint | no citations | $0 | Apr 1, 2008 |
| Mar 4, 2005 | Oakland | Complaint | no citations | $0 | Apr 13, 2005 |
Also recorded as: Oakland Unified School District - Lakeview School; Oakland Unified School District - Oakland High; Oakland Unified School District - Roosevelt Middle; Oakland Unified School District - Oakland Tech; Oakland Unified School District - Lafayette Elemen; Oakland Unified School District - Castlemont High; Oakland Unified School District - Anthony Chabot Elementary School; Oakland Unified School District - Manzanita School; Oakland Unified School District - Martin Luther King, JR. Elementary School; Oakland Unified School District - Skyline High School; Oakland Unified School District - Grass Valley Elementary School.
The rules this employer was cited under
- 8 CCR 3203, Injury and Illness Prevention Program: 7 citations, $3,175
- 8 CCR 3362, General sanitation requirements: 2 citations, $935
- 8 CCR 3364, Sanitary facilities: 1 citation, $465
- 8 CCR 3328, Machinery and equipment, general: 1 citation, $420
- 8 CCR 461, Permits to Operate: 1 citation, $325
- 8 CCR 5198, Lead: 1 citation, $280
Accidents investigated
Local pages: Oakland 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. 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 Oakland 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 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.