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Snelson Companies, Inc. Cal/OSHA Inspections and Citations

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Snelson Companies, Inc.: 7 inspections, 1 citations and $375 in penalties, latest opened Aug 25, 2026.

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.

Snelson Companies, Inc. safety record at a glance

Snelson Companies, Inc. has been the subject of 7 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Sep 26, 2012 and Aug 25, 2026. 2 of them were accident inspections. 1 of them produced citations, 1 in all: 0 serious. Inspectors proposed $605 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $375. The largest single penalty, $375, came from an inspection opened Apr 11, 2022 in Escondido. That places the employer at #70,364 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties.

Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Construction. Worksites in Petaluma, Lodi, Escondido, Thornton, Calipatria, Ripon, South San Francisco.

Every inspection, newest first

Click a date for the citations in that inspection.

OpenedCityWhyResultProposedPenaltyClosed
Aug 25, 2026PetalumaPlannedopen, no citations yet00open
Jun 9, 2022LodiReferralno citations00Nov 17, 2022
Apr 11, 2022EscondidoAccident1 citation$605$375Dec 26, 2024
Aug 10, 2018ThorntonUnprogrammed relatedno citations00Dec 18, 2018
Oct 16, 2015CalipatriaComplaintno citations00Oct 28, 2015
Oct 1, 2013RiponComplaintno citations00Oct 1, 2013
Sep 26, 2012South San FranciscoAccidentno citations00Feb 28, 2013

The rules this employer was cited under

Accidents investigated

Jan 24, 2022, Escondido. Employee is struck by steel plate, receives fracture and lac 1 hospitalized Inspection

Local pages: 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 Snelson Companies, 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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