Employer record, Cal/OSHA and OSHA inspections

Pool Well Services CO Cal/OSHA Inspections and Citations

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Pool Well Services CO: 6 inspections, 3 citations and $38,250 in penalties, 1 death investigated, latest opened May 19, 2005.

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.

Pool Well Services CO safety record at a glance

Pool Well Services CO has been the subject of 6 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Nov 7, 2001 and May 19, 2005. 6 of them were accident inspections. 2 of them produced citations, 3 in all: 3 serious. Inspectors proposed $48,600 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $38,250. The largest single penalty, $32,400, came from an inspection opened May 19, 2005 in Whittier. 1 worker death was investigated. That places the employer at #2,390 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties.

Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction. Worksites in Whittier, Bakersfield, Los Angeles.

Every inspection, newest first

Click a date for the citations in that inspection.

OpenedCityWhyResultProposedPenaltyClosed
May 19, 2005WhittierAccidentdeath 2 citations 2 serious$32,400$32,400Dec 18, 2014
Oct 1, 2003BakersfieldAccidentno citations00Mar 15, 2004
Apr 3, 2003BakersfieldAccidentno citations00Jul 3, 2003
Dec 3, 2002BakersfieldAccidentno citations00Jan 11, 2005
Jul 24, 2002BakersfieldAccidentno citations00Dec 20, 2002
Nov 7, 2001Los AngelesAccident1 citation 1 serious$16,200$5,850Sep 13, 2010

Also recorded as: Pool Well Services CO.; Pool Well Services.

The rules this employer was cited under

Accidents investigated

May 19, 2005, Whittier. Three Employees Receives Burns, One Dies, in Well Fire 1 death Inspection
Sep 16, 2003, Bakersfield. Employee Is Injured When Struck by Falling Block 1 hospitalized Inspection
Feb 25, 2003, Bakersfield. Employee Struck by Falling Elevator 1 hospitalized Inspection
Oct 31, 2002, Bakersfield. Employee Burned by Hot Steam Inspection
Jul 12, 2002, Bakersfield. Employee Is Injured in Fall from Truck Platform 1 hospitalized Inspection
Nov 6, 2001, Los Angeles. Employee injured when head struck by oil pipe 1 hospitalized Inspection

Local pages: Whittier employment lawyer, Bakersfield employment lawyer, Los Angeles 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 Pool Well Services CO

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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