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S.J. Louis Construction Cal/OSHA Inspections and Citations

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

S.J. Louis Construction: 4 inspections, 2 citations and $8,500 in penalties, latest opened Dec 9, 2009.

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.

S.J. Louis Construction safety record at a glance

S.J. Louis Construction has been the subject of 4 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Nov 5, 2008 and Dec 9, 2009. 2 of them were planned inspections. 1 of them produced citations, 2 in all: 0 serious. Inspectors proposed $23,000 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $8,500. The largest single penalty, $8,500, came from an inspection opened Dec 9, 2009 in Lancaster. That places the employer at #16,846 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties.

Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Construction. Worksites in Lancaster, Herald.

Every inspection, newest first

Click a date for the citations in that inspection.

OpenedCityWhyResultProposedPenaltyClosed
Dec 9, 2009LancasterComplaint2 citations$23,000$8,500Mar 15, 2011
Sep 21, 2009LancasterPlannedno inspection made00Sep 21, 2009
Sep 17, 2009LancasterPlannedno inspection made00Sep 17, 2009
Nov 5, 2008HeraldAccidentno citations00Jul 7, 2010

Also recorded as: SJ Louis Construction, Inc.; S.J. Louis Construction, Inc.

The rules this employer was cited under

Accidents investigated

Nov 18, 2009, Lancaster. Employee's Foot Is Amputated When Struck by Pipe 1 hospitalized Inspection
Sep 22, 2008, Herald. Employeee Is Struck on the Foot by the Boom of Excavator 1 hospitalized Inspection

Local pages: Lancaster 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 S.J. Louis Construction

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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