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Orange County Transportation Authority Cal/OSHA Inspections and Citations

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Orange County Transportation Authority: 7 inspections, 1 citations and $5,000 in penalties, 1 death investigated, latest opened Feb 9, 2022.

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.

Orange County Transportation Authority safety record at a glance

Orange County Transportation Authority has been the subject of 7 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Aug 30, 2000 and Feb 9, 2022. 3 of them were complaint inspections. 1 of them produced citations, 1 in all: 0 serious. Inspectors proposed $5,000 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $5,000. The largest single penalty, $5,000, came from an inspection opened Jun 1, 2004 in Anaheim. 1 worker death was investigated. That places the employer at #25,043 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties. It also appears in 1 federal wage and hour case.

Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Transportation and Warehousing; Public Administration. Worksites in Santa Ana, Orange, Garden Grove, Anaheim.

Every inspection, newest first

Click a date for the citations in that inspection.

OpenedCityWhyResultProposedPenaltyClosed
Feb 9, 2022Santa AnaFatality or catastrophedeath no citations00May 3, 2022
Sep 22, 2009OrangeComplaintno citations00Nov 3, 2009
Jun 29, 2009Santa AnaAccidentno citations00Dec 9, 2009
May 5, 2009Garden GroveAccidentno citations00May 8, 2009
Jul 9, 2008AnaheimComplaintno citations00Jul 10, 2008
Jun 1, 2004AnaheimAccident1 citation$5,000$5,000Sep 22, 2006
Aug 30, 2000AnaheimComplaintno citations00Nov 1, 2001

The rules this employer was cited under

Accidents investigated

Feb 4, 2022, Santa Ana. Employee with COVID-19 infection dies 1 death Inspection
Jun 14, 2009, Santa Ana. Employee's Finger Is Amputated by Belt 1 hospitalized Inspection
Mar 13, 2009, Garden Grove. Employee Slips and Falls from Tow Truck 1 hospitalized Inspection
May 14, 2004, Anaheim. Employee Struck By Falling Light 1 hospitalized Inspection

Local pages: Santa Ana employment lawyer, Orange employment lawyer, Garden Grove 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 Orange County Transportation Authority

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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