West Contra Costa Unified School District safety record at a glance
West Contra Costa Unified School District has been the subject of 22 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Aug 17, 2006 and Dec 10, 2025. 17 of them were complaint inspections. 18 of them produced citations, 27 in all: 0 serious. Inspectors proposed $25,485 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $25,215. The largest single penalty, $6,135, came from an inspection opened Feb 6, 2018 in El Sobrante. That places the employer at #4,629 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties. It also appears in 1 federal wage and hour case.
Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Educational Services. Worksites in Richmond, Hercules, San Pablo, Pinole, El Sobrante.
Every inspection, newest first
Click a date for the citations in that inspection.
| Opened | City | Why | Result | Penalty | Closed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 10, 2025 | Richmond | Complaint | no citations | $0 | Dec 11, 2025 |
| Dec 2, 2025 | Hercules | Complaint | 1 citation | $550 | Apr 20, 2026 |
| Oct 10, 2024 | Richmond | Complaint | 1 citation | $750 | Apr 14, 2025 |
| Aug 7, 2024 | Richmond | Complaint | 5 citations | $4,000 | Mar 11, 2025 |
| Oct 1, 2021 | Richmond | Complaint | 1 citation | $650 | May 2, 2022 |
| Oct 1, 2021 | Richmond | Complaint | 1 citation | $550 | May 2, 2022 |
| Oct 1, 2021 | San Pablo | Complaint | 1 citation | $550 | May 2, 2022 |
| Sep 29, 2021 | Richmond | Complaint | 1 citation | $550 | May 2, 2022 |
| Sep 29, 2021 | Richmond | Complaint | 1 citation | $550 | May 2, 2022 |
| Sep 29, 2021 | Pinole | Complaint | 1 citation | $550 | Oct 7, 2024 |
| Sep 29, 2021 | San Pablo | Complaint | open, no citations yet | $0 | open |
| Sep 29, 2021 | Richmond | Complaint | no citations | $0 | Mar 22, 2022 |
| Sep 22, 2021 | San Pablo | Complaint | 1 citation | $750 | May 2, 2022 |
| Sep 22, 2021 | Hercules | Complaint | 1 citation | $650 | May 2, 2022 |
| Sep 22, 2021 | Hercules | Complaint | 1 citation | $550 | May 2, 2022 |
| Feb 7, 2018 | Hercules | Accident | 1 citation | $5,000 | Jun 20, 2018 |
| Feb 6, 2018 | El Sobrante | Accident | 3 citations | $6,135 | Aug 13, 2018 |
| Jan 13, 2015 | Richmond | Complaint | 2 citations | $1,030 | Aug 21, 2017 |
| Apr 22, 2014 | Richmond | Complaint | no citations | $0 | May 13, 2014 |
| Dec 17, 2012 | Richmond | Accident | 2 citations | $2,250 | May 3, 2013 |
| May 24, 2011 | San Pablo | Accident | 1 citation | $150 $420 proposed | Apr 25, 2017 |
| Aug 17, 2006 | San Pablo | Accident | 2 citations | $0 | Nov 15, 2006 |
The rules this employer was cited under
- 8 CCR 3205, COVID-19 prevention (expired): 9 citations, $5,350
- 8 CCR 3203, Injury and Illness Prevention Program: 6 citations, $2,215
- 8 CCR 1529, Asbestos (construction): 4 citations, $3,200
- 8 CCR 342, Reporting serious injuries and deaths: 2 citations, $10,000
- 8 CCR 3395, Heat illness prevention, outdoor: 2 citations, $2,250
- 8 CCR 1532.1, Lead (construction): 1 citation, $800
- 8 CCR 3362, General sanitation requirements: 1 citation, $750
- 8 CCR 3273, Working area, floors and walkways: 1 citation, $650
Accidents investigated
Local pages: Richmond 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. Penalty is the current figure after any appeal or settlement; where it was reduced, the amount the inspector first proposed is shown under it. "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 West Contra Costa Unified School 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 4, 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.