United States Postal Service safety record at a glance
United States Postal Service has been the subject of 15 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Mar 25, 2014 and Nov 19, 2024. 8 of them were complaint inspections. 5 of them produced citations, 12 in all: 6 serious. Inspectors proposed $13,370 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $6,874. The largest single penalty, $6,216, came from an inspection opened Jan 20, 2022 in Oakland. That places the employer at #19,448 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties. It also appears in 65 federal wage and hour cases.
Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Transportation and Warehousing. Worksites in Santa Rosa, Byron, Newhall, San Francisco, Clovis, Sacramento, Fresno, Oakland.
Every inspection, newest first
Click a date for the citations in that inspection.
| Opened | City | Why | Result | Proposed | Penalty | Closed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 19, 2024 | Santa Rosa | Fatality or catastrophe | no inspection made | 0 | 0 | Jan 28, 2025 |
| Sep 20, 2023 | Byron | Planned | 1 citation | 0 | 0 | Nov 28, 2023 |
| Sep 15, 2023 | Newhall | Fatality or catastrophe | no inspection made | 0 | 0 | Jan 24, 2024 |
| Aug 3, 2023 | San Francisco | Complaint | 2 citations | $940 | $658 | Dec 6, 2023 |
| Aug 2, 2023 | Clovis | Referral | no citations | 0 | 0 | Oct 23, 2023 |
| Mar 30, 2023 | Sacramento | Complaint | 2 citations | 0 | 0 | Apr 28, 2023 |
| Mar 9, 2023 | Fresno | Planned | 1 citation | 0 | 0 | Sep 11, 2023 |
| Mar 22, 2022 | Fresno | Complaint | no citations | 0 | 0 | Mar 25, 2022 |
| Jan 20, 2022 | Oakland | Complaint | 6 citations 6 serious | $12,430 | $6,216 | Nov 13, 2023 |
| Jul 21, 2021 | Willows | Referral | no citations | 0 | 0 | Oct 20, 2021 |
| Dec 4, 2020 | Guerneville | Complaint | no citations | 0 | 0 | Mar 23, 2021 |
| Jun 27, 2019 | Santa Rosa | Complaint | no citations | 0 | 0 | Jul 12, 2019 |
| May 14, 2019 | West Sacramento | Complaint | no citations | 0 | 0 | May 29, 2019 |
| Jan 28, 2019 | Arcata | Complaint | no citations | 0 | 0 | Mar 1, 2019 |
| Mar 25, 2014 | Anaheim | Monitoring | no citations | 0 | 0 | Mar 28, 2014 |
Also recorded as: United States Postal Service - Newhall.
The rules this employer was cited under
- 8 CCR 1910.1001: 6 citations, 6 serious, $6,216
- 8 CCR 1910.157: 2 citations
- 8 CCR 1910.303: 2 citations
- 8 CCR 1910.22: 1 citation, $658
- 8 CCR 1910.179: 1 citation
Local pages: Santa Rosa 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 United States Postal Service
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.