Pacific Southwest Container, LLC safety record at a glance
Pacific Southwest Container, LLC has been the subject of 14 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Jul 24, 2009 and Mar 23, 2026. 9 of them were accident inspections. 6 of them produced citations, 6 in all: 2 serious. Inspectors proposed $32,150 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $29,500. The largest single penalty, $18,000, came from an inspection opened Mar 3, 2010 in Visalia. That places the employer at #3,631 of 122,853 California employers in the database by penalties.
Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Manufacturing; Wholesale Trade. Worksites in Modesto, Visalia, Stockton.
Every inspection, newest first
Click a date for the citations in that inspection.
| Opened | City | Why | Result | Penalty | Closed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 2026 | Modesto | Complaint | no citations | $0 | Jun 18, 2026 |
| May 24, 2024 | Modesto | Complaint | no citations | $0 | Jun 17, 2024 |
| Jan 23, 2023 | Modesto | Accident | 1 citation | $3,000 | Jul 10, 2023 |
| Jul 15, 2022 | Visalia | Accident | no citations | $0 | Oct 20, 2022 |
| Apr 18, 2022 | Modesto | Accident | 1 citation | $3,000 $3,375 proposed | Jun 15, 2022 |
| Oct 26, 2021 | Modesto | Accident | 1 citation | $800 | Apr 18, 2022 |
| Aug 26, 2020 | Visalia | Accident | no citations | $0 | Jan 15, 2021 |
| Jun 25, 2019 | Modesto | Accident | 1 citation | $2,000 $3,600 proposed | May 27, 2020 |
| Jun 25, 2019 | Modesto | Complaint | no citations | $0 | Oct 25, 2019 |
| Feb 25, 2019 | Modesto | Complaint | no citations | $0 | Jun 13, 2019 |
| Nov 15, 2017 | Modesto | Accident | 1 citation 1 serious | $2,700 $3,375 proposed | Aug 2, 2018 |
| May 8, 2012 | Stockton | Accident | no citations | $0 | May 14, 2012 |
| Mar 3, 2010 | Visalia | Accident | 1 citation 1 serious | $18,000 | Feb 6, 2012 |
| Jul 24, 2009 | Visalia | Unprogrammed related | no citations | $0 | Oct 6, 2009 |
Also recorded as: Pacific Southwest Container LLC; Pacific Southwest Container.
The rules this employer was cited under
- 8 CCR 3314, Lockout and cleaning of machinery: 4 citations, 2 serious, $25,700
- 8 CCR 4002, Machine guarding, moving parts: 1 citation, $3,000
- 8 CCR 3203, Injury and Illness Prevention Program: 1 citation, $800
Accidents investigated
Local pages: Modesto employment lawyer, Visalia employment lawyer, Stockton 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 Pacific Southwest Container, LLC
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.