Riverside County Sheriff's Department safety record at a glance
Riverside County Sheriff's Department has been the subject of 11 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Apr 3, 2015 and Aug 21, 2024. 8 of them were accident inspections. 3 of them produced citations, 3 in all: 1 serious. Inspectors proposed $7,925 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $3,350. The largest single penalty, $2,700, came from an inspection opened Apr 3, 2015 in Riverside. 1 worker death was investigated. That places the employer at #31,652 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties. It also appears in 1 federal wage and hour case.
Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Public Administration. Worksites in Riverside, Palm Desert, Escondido, Banning, San Bernardino.
Every inspection, newest first
Click a date for the citations in that inspection.
| Opened | City | Why | Result | Proposed | Penalty | Closed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 2024 | Riverside | Accident | no citations | 0 | 0 | Sep 23, 2024 |
| Mar 14, 2024 | Palm Desert | Accident | no citations | 0 | 0 | Jul 5, 2024 |
| Oct 2, 2023 | Escondido | Accident | no citations | 0 | 0 | Mar 11, 2024 |
| Sep 12, 2023 | Palm Desert | Accident | 1 citation | $425 | $350 | Sep 3, 2024 |
| Dec 27, 2021 | Riverside | Fatality or catastrophe | death no citations | 0 | 0 | Apr 13, 2022 |
| Aug 19, 2021 | Banning | Accident | no citations | 0 | 0 | Jan 3, 2023 |
| Oct 1, 2020 | Riverside | Accident | no citations | 0 | 0 | Feb 25, 2021 |
| Jul 29, 2020 | Riverside | Complaint | 1 citation | $750 | $300 | May 25, 2021 |
| Nov 12, 2019 | Banning | Accident | no citations | 0 | 0 | Apr 20, 2020 |
| Aug 6, 2018 | San Bernardino | Accident | no citations | 0 | 0 | Mar 6, 2019 |
| Apr 3, 2015 | Riverside | Unprogrammed related | 1 citation 1 serious | $6,750 | $2,700 | Jan 27, 2016 |
Also recorded as: The Riverside County Sheriff's Department.
The rules this employer was cited under
- 8 CCR 3395, Heat illness prevention, outdoor: 1 citation, 1 serious, $2,700
- 8 CCR 4300.4: 1 citation, $350
- 8 CCR 5198, Lead: 1 citation, $300
Accidents investigated
Local pages: Riverside employment lawyer, Escondido 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 Riverside County Sheriff's Department
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.