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South Orange County Community College District Cal/OSHA Inspections and Citations

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

South Orange County Community College District: 4 inspections, 2 citations and $600 in penalties, latest opened May 31, 2018.

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.

South Orange County Community College District safety record at a glance

South Orange County Community College District has been the subject of 4 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Jan 12, 2016 and May 31, 2018. 2 of them were complaint inspections. 1 of them produced citations, 2 in all: 0 serious. Inspectors proposed $600 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $600. The largest single penalty, $600, came from an inspection opened May 31, 2018 in Mission Viejo. That places the employer at #62,018 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties.

Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Educational Services. Worksites in Mission Viejo, Irvine.

Every inspection, newest first

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OpenedCityWhyResultProposedPenaltyClosed
May 31, 2018Mission ViejoComplaint2 citations$600$600Jun 12, 2019
Feb 27, 2018Mission ViejoAccidentno citations00Mar 5, 2018
Jan 4, 2017Mission ViejoAccidentno inspection made00Jan 4, 2017
Jan 12, 2016IrvineComplaintno citations00Jan 29, 2016

The rules this employer was cited under

Accidents investigated

Feb 25, 2018, Mission Viejo. Employee fractures leg in fall from stepladder 1 hospitalized Inspection

Local pages: Mission Viejo employment lawyer, Irvine 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 South Orange County Community College District

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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