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Pirate Staffing Cal/OSHA Inspections and Citations

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

Pirate Staffing: 10 inspections, 8 citations and $5,385 in penalties, latest opened Dec 3, 2014.

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.

Pirate Staffing safety record at a glance

Pirate Staffing has been the subject of 10 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Sep 7, 2007 and Dec 3, 2014. 6 of them were accident inspections. 5 of them produced citations, 8 in all: 1 serious. Inspectors proposed $35,610 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $5,385. The largest single penalty, $4,000, came from an inspection opened Mar 9, 2010 in Valencia. That places the employer at #23,712 of 122,853 California employers in the database by penalties.

Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Administrative and Support and Waste Management Services. Worksites in Valencia, Palos Verdes Estates, Lakeside, Gardena, Oxnard.

Every inspection, newest first

Click a date for the citations in that inspection.

OpenedCityWhyResultPenaltyClosed
Dec 3, 2014ValenciaUnprogrammed relatedno citations$0May 18, 2015
Nov 10, 2014Palos Verdes EstatesUnprogrammed related1 citation$150
$375 proposed
Sep 19, 2022
Sep 19, 2013ValenciaAccidentno citations$0Feb 28, 2014
Mar 29, 2012ValenciaAccidentno citations$0Aug 3, 2012
Jul 26, 2011ValenciaAccidentno citations$0Jan 17, 2012
Apr 7, 2010LakesideAccident1 citation$500Sep 22, 2010
Mar 9, 2010ValenciaAccident4 citations 1 serious$4,000
$34,000 proposed
Oct 25, 2012
Oct 24, 2008GardenaAccidentno citations$0Mar 2, 2009
Nov 20, 2007OxnardUnprogrammed related1 citation$360Jul 31, 2008
Sep 7, 2007ValenciaUnprogrammed related1 citation$375Jun 14, 2008

Also recorded as: Pirate Staffing, Inc.

The rules this employer was cited under

Accidents investigated

Feb 6, 2012, Valencia. Employee's Finger Is Amputated While Cleaning Machine Inspection
Jul 20, 2011, Valencia. Employee Injurs Hand Moving Glass 1 hospitalized Inspection
Mar 29, 2010, Lakeside. Employee Fractures Leg When Struck by Concrete 1 hospitalized Inspection
Jan 26, 2010, Valencia. Employee Is Injured While Lifting Mirror 1 hospitalized Inspection
Oct 22, 2008, Gardena. Employee's Fingertips Are Amputated in Die Machine 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 Pirate Staffing

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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