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Sutter Bay Medical Foundation Cal/OSHA Inspections and Citations

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

Sutter Bay Medical Foundation: 5 inspections, 7 citations and $22,450 in penalties, latest opened Mar 2, 2022.

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.

Sutter Bay Medical Foundation safety record at a glance

Sutter Bay Medical Foundation has been the subject of 5 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between May 14, 2018 and Mar 2, 2022. 3 of them were accident inspections. 3 of them produced citations, 7 in all: 2 serious. Inspectors proposed $49,610 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $22,450. The largest single penalty, $19,200, came from an inspection opened Feb 22, 2019 in Palo Alto. That places the employer at #5,611 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties.

Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Health Care and Social Assistance. Worksites in San Jose, Pleasanton, Berkeley, Palo Alto, San Rafael.

Every inspection, newest first

Click a date for the citations in that inspection.

OpenedCityWhyResultProposedPenaltyClosed
Mar 2, 2022San JoseComplaint1 citation$5,060$2,500Jun 24, 2024
May 5, 2021PleasantonComplaintno citations00May 19, 2022
May 18, 2020BerkeleyAccident1 citation$6,750$750Feb 17, 2025
Feb 22, 2019Palo AltoAccident5 citations 2 serious$37,800$19,200Sep 21, 2020
May 14, 2018San RafaelAccidentno citations00Jul 17, 2018

The rules this employer was cited under

Accidents investigated

May 1, 2020, Berkeley. Employee with COVID-19 infection is hospitalized 1 hospitalized Inspection
Feb 15, 2019, Palo Alto. Employee's fingers are caught in exhaust fan assembly and in Inspection
May 8, 2018, San Rafael. Employee falls in parking lot and fractures her hip and elbo 1 hospitalized Inspection

Local pages: San Jose employment lawyer, Berkeley 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 Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

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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