Employer record, Cal/OSHA and OSHA inspections

Portion Pac, Inc. Cal/OSHA Inspections and Citations

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Portion Pac, Inc.: 5 inspections, 5 citations and $22,750 in penalties, latest opened Jan 24, 2018.

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.

Portion Pac, Inc. safety record at a glance

Portion Pac, Inc. has been the subject of 5 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Oct 2, 2000 and Jan 24, 2018. 4 of them were accident inspections. 3 of them produced citations, 5 in all: 1 serious. Inspectors proposed $48,000 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $22,750. The largest single penalty, $18,000, came from an inspection opened Aug 19, 2008 in Chatsworth. That places the employer at #5,489 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties.

Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Manufacturing; Wholesale Trade. Worksites in Chatsworth.

Every inspection, newest first

Click a date for the citations in that inspection.

OpenedCityWhyResultProposedPenaltyClosed
Jan 24, 2018ChatsworthPlannedno inspection made00Jan 26, 2018
Aug 19, 2008ChatsworthAccident1 citation 1 serious$22,500$18,000Aug 11, 2010
Mar 12, 2004ChatsworthAccident2 citations$24,750$4,000Dec 8, 2007
Dec 20, 2000ChatsworthAccident2 citations$750$750May 31, 2001
Oct 2, 2000ChatsworthAccidentno citations00Apr 30, 2001

Also recorded as: Portion Pac Inc.

The rules this employer was cited under

Accidents investigated

Jul 21, 2008, Chatsworth. Employee Amputates Fingers in Liquid Pouch Machine 1 hospitalized Inspection
Mar 5, 2004, Chatsworth. Employee's Finger Is Amputated When Valve Closes Inspection
Dec 4, 2000, Chatsworth. Lacerations and Broken Fingers Using Packaging Machine 1 hospitalized Inspection
Aug 23, 2000, Chatsworth. Employee Suffers Amputation 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. 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 Portion Pac, Inc.

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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