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Progress Rail Services Corporation Cal/OSHA Inspections and Citations

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

Progress Rail Services Corporation: 10 inspections, 8 citations and $19,890 in penalties, latest opened Jun 4, 2014.

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.

Progress Rail Services Corporation safety record at a glance

Progress Rail Services Corporation has been the subject of 10 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Sep 11, 2006 and Jun 4, 2014. 8 of them were accident inspections. 4 of them produced citations, 8 in all: 3 serious. Inspectors proposed $36,690 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $19,890. The largest single penalty, $13,375, came from an inspection opened Oct 1, 2013 in Rocklin. That places the employer at #6,732 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties.

Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Transportation and Warehousing; Other Services (except Public Administration); Manufacturing. Worksites in Terminal Island, Rocklin, Mojave, San Bernardino.

Every inspection, newest first

Click a date for the citations in that inspection.

OpenedCityWhyResultProposedPenaltyClosed
Jun 4, 2014Terminal IslandAccident1 citation 1 serious$8,435$5,000Dec 11, 2015
Feb 3, 2014Terminal IslandComplaintno citations00Jul 30, 2014
Oct 1, 2013RocklinAccident3 citations 2 serious$25,500$13,375Jul 18, 2014
Sep 25, 2013MojaveAccident3 citations$2,475$1,235May 26, 2018
May 24, 2013San BernardinoAccidentno inspection made00Jul 23, 2013
Oct 25, 2012RocklinAccidentno citations00Feb 13, 2013
Feb 19, 2009Terminal IslandAccidentno citations00Feb 19, 2009
Oct 11, 2007San BernardinoAccident1 citation$280$280Mar 23, 2010
Jun 15, 2007Terminal IslandAccidentno citations00Sep 9, 2008
Sep 11, 2006RocklinComplaintno citations00Oct 20, 2006

Also recorded as: Progress Rail Services Corp; Progress Rail Services.

The rules this employer was cited under

Accidents investigated

Feb 27, 2014, Terminal Island. Railroad Worker Injured While Avoiding Train Collision Inspection
Sep 7, 2013, Mojave. Employee Crushes Hand While Checking Axle Tolerances 1 hospitalized Inspection
May 24, 2013, San Bernardino. Individual Is Struck by Moving Train, Is Not Injured Inspection
Sep 20, 2012, Rocklin. Employee's Finger Is Injured When Caught in Motor Frame 1 hospitalized Inspection
Sep 10, 2007, San Bernardino. Employee Is Struck by Flying Piece of Beam Spreader 1 hospitalized Inspection
May 21, 2007, Terminal Island. Employee Is Injured When He Falls Off Railroad Car 1 hospitalized Inspection
not stated, Rocklin. Accident investigation 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 Progress Rail Services Corporation

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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