Sears Holding Company safety record at a glance
Sears Holding Company has been the subject of 13 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Aug 28, 2006 and Oct 15, 2015. 11 of them were complaint inspections. 7 of them produced citations, 20 in all: 1 serious. Inspectors proposed $15,230 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $9,345. The largest single penalty, $5,400, came from an inspection opened Feb 24, 2014 in Stockton. That places the employer at #15,866 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties.
Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Retail Trade; Transportation and Warehousing. Worksites in Sacramento, Ontario, Cerritos, Clovis, Visalia, Stockton, Cudahy, Fairfield.
Every inspection, newest first
Click a date for the citations in that inspection.
| Opened | City | Why | Result | Proposed | Penalty | Closed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 2015 | Sacramento | Complaint | no citations | 0 | 0 | Mar 22, 2016 |
| Jul 29, 2015 | Ontario | Accident | no citations | 0 | 0 | Dec 10, 2015 |
| Jun 23, 2015 | Cerritos | Complaint | 5 citations | $1,400 | $750 | Feb 23, 2016 |
| Mar 12, 2015 | Clovis | Complaint | 2 citations | $400 | $400 | Nov 16, 2015 |
| Mar 12, 2015 | Clovis | Complaint | open, no citations yet | 0 | 0 | open |
| Jan 14, 2015 | Visalia | Complaint | 3 citations | $610 | $610 | Nov 16, 2015 |
| Feb 24, 2014 | Stockton | Unprogrammed related | 4 citations | $5,400 | $5,400 | Mar 14, 2015 |
| Dec 3, 2013 | Sacramento | Complaint | no citations | 0 | 0 | Mar 10, 2014 |
| Aug 10, 2012 | Cudahy | Complaint | 2 citations | $560 | $560 | May 11, 2013 |
| Jul 19, 2012 | Fairfield | Complaint | 1 citation 1 serious | $5,735 | $500 | Aug 27, 2013 |
| Jun 20, 2007 | Merced | Complaint | no citations | 0 | 0 | Jul 6, 2007 |
| Jan 11, 2007 | Torrance | Complaint | 3 citations | $1,125 | $1,125 | Nov 5, 2008 |
| Aug 28, 2006 | Sacramento | Complaint | no citations | 0 | 0 | Oct 31, 2006 |
Also recorded as: Sears Holding Corp; Sears Holding CO Inc; Sears Holding; Sears Holding CO., dba Kmart Inc, dba Big K; Sears Holding Corporation; Sears Holding Corp.; Sears Holding CO.
The rules this employer was cited under
- 8 CCR 3203, Injury and Illness Prevention Program: 4 citations, $4,425
- 8 CCR 6151, Portable fire extinguishers: 4 citations, $980
- 8 CCR 5155, Airborne contaminants: 1 citation, $1,350
- 8 CCR 3999, Hand tools: 1 citation, 1 serious, $500
- 8 CCR 3364, Sanitary facilities: 1 citation, $375
- 8 CCR 3272: 1 citation, $280
- 8 CCR 2340.17: 1 citation, $260
- 8 CCR 3380, Personal protective equipment: 1 citation, $240
Local pages: Sacramento employment lawyer, Ontario 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 Sears Holding Company
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.