Southwest Marine, Inc. safety record at a glance
Southwest Marine, Inc. has been the subject of 20 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Jun 6, 2000 and Feb 1, 2005. 19 of them were planned inspections. 5 of them produced citations, 7 in all: 5 serious. Inspectors proposed $16,975 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $9,300. The largest single penalty, $4,500, came from an inspection opened Sep 6, 2001 in Los Angeles. That places the employer at #15,895 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties.
Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Manufacturing. Worksites in San Diego, Terminal Island, Los Angeles.
Every inspection, newest first
Click a date for the citations in that inspection.
| Opened | City | Why | Result | Proposed | Penalty | Closed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1, 2005 | San Diego | Monitoring | no citations | 0 | 0 | Apr 4, 2005 |
| Jan 11, 2005 | Terminal Island | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Jan 11, 2005 |
| Jul 13, 2004 | San Diego | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Jul 13, 2004 |
| Mar 4, 2004 | Terminal Island | Planned | 1 citation 1 serious | 0 | $1,312 | Jun 18, 2008 |
| Jan 21, 2004 | San Diego | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | May 20, 2004 |
| Oct 29, 2003 | Los Angeles | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Nov 4, 2003 |
| Jul 28, 2003 | San Diego | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Aug 7, 2003 |
| Jul 15, 2003 | San Diego | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Jul 21, 2003 |
| Jul 15, 2003 | San Diego | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Jul 15, 2003 |
| Aug 6, 2002 | San Diego | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Aug 8, 2002 |
| Jul 10, 2002 | San Diego | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Sep 17, 2002 |
| Mar 11, 2002 | San Diego | Planned | 1 citation 1 serious | $2,975 | $1,488 | May 14, 2002 |
| Feb 19, 2002 | San Diego | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Feb 19, 2002 |
| Dec 13, 2001 | San Diego | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Dec 13, 2001 |
| Dec 11, 2001 | San Diego | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Dec 20, 2001 |
| Dec 3, 2001 | San Diego | Planned | 1 citation 1 serious | $5,000 | $2,000 | Mar 12, 2002 |
| Sep 6, 2001 | Los Angeles | Planned | 3 citations 2 serious | $9,000 | $4,500 | Jan 30, 2002 |
| Mar 1, 2001 | San Diego | Planned | 1 citation | 0 | 0 | Apr 4, 2001 |
| Jan 30, 2001 | San Diego | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Aug 13, 2001 |
| Jun 6, 2000 | San Diego | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Jun 21, 2000 |
Also recorded as: Southwest Marine; Southwest Marine Inc.
The rules this employer was cited under
- 8 CCR 1915.77: 2 citations, 2 serious, $3,738
- 8 CCR 1915.71: 2 citations, 2 serious, $3,312
- 8 CCR 1915.73: 1 citation, 1 serious, $2,250
- 8 CCR 1915.74: 1 citation
- 8 CCR 1915.152: 1 citation
Local pages: San Diego employment lawyer, Los Angeles 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 Southwest Marine, 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.