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Sutter Health Cal/OSHA Inspections and Citations

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Sutter Health: 34 inspections, 17 citations and $32,250 in penalties, latest opened Jun 16, 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.

Sutter Health safety record at a glance

Sutter Health has been the subject of 34 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Jan 26, 2009 and Jun 16, 2026. 17 of them were complaint inspections. 10 of them produced citations, 17 in all: 2 serious. Inspectors proposed $53,125 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $32,250. The largest single penalty, $10,460, came from an inspection opened Aug 3, 2020 in Burbank. That places the employer at #3,144 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties. The same employer has 1 WARN layoff notice on file with the EDD. It also appears in 1 federal wage and hour case.

Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Health Care and Social Assistance; Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services. Worksites in Sacramento, San Francisco, Roseville, Turlock, Oakland, Burbank, Auburn, Modesto.

Every inspection, newest first

Click a date for the citations in that inspection.

OpenedCityWhyResultProposedPenaltyClosed
Jun 16, 2026SacramentoComplaintno citations00Jun 29, 2026
Jul 18, 2025San FranciscoAccidentno citations00Sep 19, 2025
Mar 26, 2024RosevilleAccidentno citations00Aug 6, 2024
Jun 15, 2023TurlockAccident1 citation$280$280Dec 26, 2023
Jun 15, 2022San FranciscoComplaintno citations00Feb 9, 2023
Mar 30, 2022OaklandAccident1 citation$5,000$5,000Jul 18, 2022
Aug 16, 2021San FranciscoAccidentno citations00May 2, 2022
Jun 2, 2021BurbankReferral2 citations$750$750Jul 22, 2022
Dec 18, 2020AuburnAccidentno citations00Jun 15, 2021
Dec 14, 2020RosevilleAccident2 citations$19,550$8,425Sep 6, 2022
Aug 3, 2020BurbankComplaint2 citations 2 serious$18,560$10,460Oct 7, 2021
Jul 24, 2020ModestoAccidentno citations00Jun 3, 2021
Jul 24, 2020ModestoComplaintopen, no citations yet00open
Apr 28, 2020RosevilleComplaintno citations00Sep 23, 2020
Oct 22, 2019StocktonAccidentno citations00Nov 20, 2019
Sep 10, 2019RosevilleAccidentno citations00Jan 9, 2020
Jun 27, 2019OaklandAccident1 citation$5,000$5,000Mar 30, 2020
Dec 27, 2018SacramentoComplaintno citations00Jul 19, 2019
Aug 3, 2018RosevilleAccident2 citations$840$840Apr 3, 2019
May 3, 2018SacramentoComplaintno citations00Oct 17, 2018
Apr 4, 2018SacramentoFollow-upno citations00Apr 11, 2018
Feb 12, 2018SacramentoComplaintno citations00Jun 4, 2018
Oct 6, 2017SacramentoComplaintno citations00Mar 13, 2018
Aug 21, 2017San FranciscoAccidentno citations00Dec 13, 2017
Mar 2, 2017SacramentoComplaintno citations00Jul 19, 2017
Jan 5, 2017AuburnAccidentno citations00May 16, 2017
Mar 16, 2015VallejoComplaint1 citation$225$225May 8, 2015
Aug 12, 2013Castro ValleyComplaintno citations00Aug 22, 2013
Jun 20, 2013Castro ValleyComplaintno citations00Oct 11, 2013
Apr 24, 2013SacramentoAccidentno citations00Aug 27, 2013
Mar 28, 2011BerkeleyComplaint2 citations$1,120$1,120Sep 6, 2011
Mar 10, 2011OaklandComplaintno citations00Apr 4, 2011
Jul 14, 2009VallejoComplaint3 citations$1,800$150Jun 7, 2010
Jan 26, 2009VallejoComplaintno citations00Jan 29, 2009

Also recorded as: Sutter Health dba Sutter Solano Medical Center; Sutter Health Inc., dba Absmc; Sutter Health - Eden Medical Center; Sutter Health - California Pacific Medical Center- Mission Bernal Campus; Sutter Health - CPMC.

The rules this employer was cited under

Accidents investigated

Nov 26, 2020, Roseville. Employee with COVID-19 infection is hospitalized 1 hospitalized Inspection
Nov 20, 2020, Auburn. Employee with pneumonia infection is hospitalized 1 hospitalized Inspection
Jul 1, 2020, Modesto. Three employees with COVID-19 infections are hospitalized 3 hospitalized Inspection
Sep 13, 2019, Stockton. Employee Incurs Back Strain While Assisting Home Health Pati 1 hospitalized Inspection
Jun 12, 2019, Oakland. Employee incurs external and internal injuries during fall 1 hospitalized Inspection
Jul 5, 2018, Roseville. Employee strains back muscles while moving patient 1 hospitalized Inspection
Aug 10, 2017, San Francisco. Employee trips and falls over pallet jack fork and suffers a 1 hospitalized Inspection
not stated, Sacramento. Accident investigation 1 hospitalized Inspection

Local pages: Sacramento employment lawyer, San Francisco employment lawyer, Roseville 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 Health

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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