5,555 inspections opened after a worker died
5,717 deaths in all since 2000, newest first, page 24 of 56. The description is the investigators' one-line summary from the accident file. The Labor Department publishes those files many months after the inspection; the latest one here is dated Feb 28, 2025, so the newest fatality inspections appear on their employer and year pages before they appear in this list. Penalties are as they stand after appeals.
| Employer | City | Opened | What happened | Citations | Penalty |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aero Pacific Corporation | Placentia | Jan 20, 2017 | Employee is killed when caught in milling machine. | 5 | $34,585 |
| Duraflame, Inc. | Stockton | Jan 20, 2017 | Employee falls through roof when structural failure occurs a | 1 | $185 |
| DRC Legal Document Services | Fresno | Jan 20, 2017 | Employee suffers seizures from possible pesticide exposure, | 0 | pending |
| Three-D Services CO | North Hollywood | Jan 17, 2017 | Employee is crushed and killed when mechanical dock ramp dro | 3 | $18,785 |
| Sungo Farms | Desert Center | Jan 13, 2017 | Employee is struck and killed by bucket of backhoe | 5 | $33,470 |
| WE DO IT All Tree Service | Fresno | Jan 11, 2017 | Employee on roof falls through skylight to concrete floor an | 0 | pending |
| CTC Group, Inc. | Torrance | Jan 11, 2017 | Employee falls from 8 foot ladder and is killed | 5 | $25,085 |
| Power Technology, Inc | Mount Shasta | Jan 9, 2017 | Employee is struck and killed by a falling tree top | 2 | $9,685 |
| Seven Brothers Inc. | Arvin | Dec 29, 2016 | Employee working in orchard dies from heart attack | 0 | pending |
| Coach House Concerts San Juan, Inc. | San Juan Capistrano | Dec 27, 2016 | An employee was was found unresponsive | 2 | $5,260 |
| Peninsula Hotel Management, LLC | Garden Grove | Dec 14, 2016 | Employee dies from heart attack | 3 | $2,325 |
| Precision Metal Products | El Cajon | Dec 14, 2016 | One Employee forging metal parts dies in flash fire while ot | 9 | $32,250 |
| RC Power, Inc. | Santa Clara | Dec 14, 2016 | Employee installing a transformer is electrocuted | 3 | $27,000 |
| Wehah Farm, Inc. | Richvale | Dec 12, 2016 | Employee falls into a rice silo and is killed | 5 | $61,685 |
| Trimont Land Company | Truckee | Dec 12, 2016 | Employee is killed when landing on rocks while skiing | 0 | pending |
| Ivan Montano | San Juan Capistrano | Dec 9, 2016 | Employee is crushed and killed when trailer bed descends | 0 | pending |
| Sully-Miller Contracting Company | Cypress | Dec 9, 2016 | Employee killed by falling trench-plate | 2 | $74,250 |
| Victoria Island Farms | Holt | Dec 5, 2016 | Employee drowns after truck rolls over into water canal | 0 | pending |
| Mep Equine Solutions, LLC | San Diego | Dec 5, 2016 | Employee is struck on head by falling object, and is killed | 2 | $200 |
| Ubaldo Munoz | Redlands | Dec 4, 2016 | Employee asphyxiated by palm tree and is killed | 0 | pending |
| Arborworks, Inc. | Coulterville | Dec 1, 2016 | Employee is struck and killed by a falling tree | 2 | $32,000 |
| Carlos Santiago Briseno | Newark | Dec 1, 2016 | Employee falls from roof and is killed | 3 | $1,575 |
| Cirque DU Soleil America Inc. | San Francisco | Nov 30, 2016 | Employee is struck in head and killed when aerial lift overt | 6 | $46,500 |
| Maruichi American Corporation | Santa Fe Springs | Nov 29, 2016 | Employee crushed against railing by gantry crane bridge | 5 | $33,840 |
| TSF International, Inc. | La Palma | Nov 29, 2016 | Employee suffers heart attack and dies | 3 | $1,465 |
| Healthy Harvesting, Inc. | Holtville | Nov 29, 2016 | Employee dies of a heart attack | 1 | $150 |
| Tri County Development & Construction Inc | Los Angeles | Nov 29, 2016 | Employee is crushed by a truck while hooking up a trailer | 1 | $110 |
| Motive Energy Telecommunications Group, Inc. | Chula Vista | Nov 23, 2016 | Employee falls from roof and is killed | 1 | $1,125 |
| Geneva Staffing, Inc. | Downey | Nov 22, 2016 | Employee is struck and killed by a forklift | 4 | $45,750 |
| Good View Roofing & Building Supply Corporation | San Francisco | Nov 21, 2016 | Employee Is Killed When Struck By Forklift | 6 | $40,050 |
| Atlas Construction Supply, Inc | Fullerton | Nov 21, 2016 | Employee is killed when struck by a forklift | 3 | $18,300 |
| Shimmick Construction CO Inc | Moorpark | Nov 21, 2016 | Employee is caught between forklift and wall and is killed | 4 | $4,215 |
| Alamillo Rebar, Inc. | Sunnyvale | Nov 15, 2016 | Employee is killed when floor collapses | 1 | $10,800 |
| Los Angeles Calco, Inc. | Arcadia | Nov 14, 2016 | Employee falls from ladder and is killed | 6 | $22,595 |
| Blessed Harvesting, Inc | Selma | Nov 10, 2016 | Employee dies from toothache | 1 | $280 |
| Construction BY R&r | La Habra Heights | Nov 10, 2016 | Employee killed by fall | 0 | pending |
| State Compensation Insurance Fund | Montclair | Nov 9, 2016 | Employee found dead in truck from unknown cause | 0 | pending |
| Bob Williams | San Leandro | Nov 8, 2016 | Employee Falls From Ladder and is Killed | 6 | $9,535 |
| Pulido Farms Inc | Wasco | Nov 8, 2016 | Employee Suffers Heart Attack At Vineyard Prior to Harvestin | 4 | $1,965 |
| Directv, LLC | Santa Rosa | Nov 7, 2016 | Employee falls from ladder and is killed | 0 | pending |
| Conre Inc. | Rancho Mirage | Nov 4, 2016 | Employee falls from ladder and is killed | 3 | $1,050 |
| Rafael A Rosero | Paramount | Nov 4, 2016 | Employee is killed when struck by flying object | 10 | $32,660 |
| Uplift Family Services | Los Gatos | Nov 1, 2016 | Employee killed while restraining youth. | 3 | $5,600 |
| Fresno County Sheriff's Department | Fresno | Nov 1, 2016 | Employee Killed in Shooting | 0 | pending |
| Kings River Harvesting, Inc. | Fresno | Oct 26, 2016 | Employee Dies While Harvesting Orange Grove | 3 | $3,750 |
| D & D Construction Specialties, Inc. | Los Angeles | Oct 21, 2016 | Employee falls down a wastewater well and is killed. | 13 | $225,000 |
| Philip Verwey Farms | Madera | Oct 21, 2016 | Employee stuck and killed by vehicle | 4 | $6,750 |
| New Horizons Contracting Inc | Altadena | Oct 19, 2016 | Supervisor falls from a rolling scaffold and sustains fatal | 3 | $18,520 |
| Ralphs Grocery Company | Fullerton | Oct 18, 2016 | Employee is found deceased in truck | 0 | pending |
| Valley Pride Inc | Salinas | Oct 18, 2016 | Employee crushed and killed by a tractor harvest machine | 7 | $30,400 |
| CG Roxane LLC | Weed | Oct 18, 2016 | EMPLOYEE KILLED WHEN CRUSHED BY OVERTURNED FORKLIFT (2 deaths) | 4 | $18,900 |
| Gallo Vineyards, Inc. | Livingston | Oct 17, 2016 | Employee is killed in fall from a roof top through a skyligh | 3 | $18,950 |
| Bakersfield Masonic Temple Association | Bakersfield | Oct 17, 2016 | Employee falls from scaffold and is killed | 0 | pending |
| Panda Restaurant Group, Inc. | North Hollywood | Oct 13, 2016 | Employee falls from top of walk-in cooler and is killed | 3 | $21,335 |
| Portermatt Electric, Inc. | Fresno | Oct 12, 2016 | Employee dies of unknown causes in a hotel room. | 0 | pending |
| Universal Protection Service, LP | San Diego | Oct 10, 2016 | Employee is run over by truck and is killed | 8 | $27,450 |
| Hillman Consulting LLC | San Bernardino | Oct 7, 2016 | Employee falls off a ladder and is killed | 1 | $25,000 |
| XPO Logistics | Sacramento | Oct 6, 2016 | Employee Collapses At Job Site From Heart Attack | 0 | pending |
| Eko Living Elements LLC | Fresno | Oct 6, 2016 | Employee collapses at work at dies | 0 | pending |
| YRC Freight | Orange | Oct 3, 2016 | Employee is struck and killed by tractor | 1 | $0 |
| Ohi Company | Stockton | Oct 3, 2016 | Employee falls from trailer and is killed | 1 | $550 |
| Coastal Viticultural Consultants Inc | Napa | Oct 3, 2016 | Employee is killed when forklift overturns | 2 | $21,150 |
| Goodwill Industries of Sacramento Valley & Northern Nevada, Inc. | Sacramento | Sep 30, 2016 | Employee is killed when head is crushed in compactor | 5 | $93,175 |
| Francisco AG Management | Yettem | Sep 30, 2016 | Employees falls from ladder and sustains fatal head injury | 3 | $1,230 |
| Southern California Edison | Lancaster | Sep 30, 2016 | Employee is struck and killed by vehicle | 0 | pending |
| JR Concrete Construction Inc. | San Diego | Sep 28, 2016 | Employee is struck and killed by concrete form | 6 | $33,710 |
| IQ Personnel, Inc. | San Jose | Sep 28, 2016 | Employee found dead, non-work related | 1 | $500 |
| Marina Landscape, Inc. | Oakley | Sep 28, 2016 | Employee dies from brain aneurysm. | 0 | pending |
| Student Union Inc. | Three Rivers | Sep 20, 2016 | Employee drowns while swimming | 0 | pending |
| Seven Island Painting, Inc. | Woodside | Sep 19, 2016 | Employees is killed when an aerial lift tips over | 8 | $34,150 |
| Five Star Harvesting, Inc. | Huron | Sep 15, 2016 | Employee crashes into utility pole and is electrocuted | 0 | pending |
| Eloy Figueroa Trucking | Somis | Sep 14, 2016 | Employee falls from top of truck cab and is killed | 3 | $14,170 |
| Anytime Property Maintenance, Inc. | Truckee | Sep 13, 2016 | Employee died of heart attack whiling torching down roofing | 1 | $5,000 |
| Fermin Ramirez | Los Angeles | Sep 12, 2016 | Employee head is crushed between two trailers an is killed | 1 | $5,400 |
| Holland Construction, Inc. | Los Angeles | Sep 9, 2016 | EMPLOYEE IS INJURED IN FALL FROM BENCH AND LATER DIES (2 deaths) | 0 | pending |
| D A K Management, Inc | Los Angeles | Sep 9, 2016 | Employee dies of apparent electrocution while performing mai | 6 | $16,140 |
| Cantu Farm Labor Contracting | Caruthers | Sep 6, 2016 | Employee dies of apparent heart attack while walking along r | 0 | pending |
| A Different Look/ Merrit Properties | Gardena | Sep 3, 2016 | Employee is crushed and killed between moving part of machin | 0 | pending |
| Newport-Mesa Unified School District | Costa Mesa | Sep 2, 2016 | Employee falls from ladder and is killed | 2 | $10,435 |
| Gonzalez Farm Labor | Maxwell | Sep 1, 2016 | Employee dies from Heart Attack | 0 | pending |
| City of Long Beach Department Financial Management Bureau Fleet Services | Long Beach | Sep 1, 2016 | Employee is crushed and killed under trailer | 4 | $27,160 |
| Sutter Home Winery, Inc. | Napa | Aug 31, 2016 | Employee stacking steel wine barrel racks was crushed and ki | 6 | $44,575 |
| Buccola Landscape Services, Inc. | Irvine | Aug 23, 2016 | Employee dies from heart attack | 1 | $185 |
| Jaj Roofing | Hayward | Aug 21, 2016 | Employee falls from an elevated work platform and is killed | 5 | $38,810 |
| Pacific Gas and Electric Company | Menlo Park | Aug 18, 2016 | Employee dies from heart attack | 0 | pending |
| WM. Bolthouse Farms, Inc. | Bakersfield | Aug 18, 2016 | Employee is killed when caught by rollers in machine | 3 | $55,530 |
| AT&T | Yorba Linda | Aug 18, 2016 | Employee falls from ladder and is killed | 0 | pending |
| Chastain Electric Inc | Dixon | Aug 15, 2016 | Employee is killed when struck by a pickup truck | 2 | $13,750 |
| U.S. Army Commander 916th Support Brigade | Fort Irwin | Aug 15, 2016 | Employee Experiences Continuous Flu-Like Symptoms And Dies | 0 | pending |
| Vertex Enterprises | Mojave | Aug 15, 2016 | Employee falls and is killed | 3 | $32,400 |
| Northstar General, Inc | Fresno | Aug 9, 2016 | Employee dies of heart attack | 2 | $4,110 |
| Village Management Services, Inc. | Laguna Woods | Aug 8, 2016 | Employee is killed in fall from height | 8 | $54,415 |
| Gizelle Investments, Inc. | Vista | Aug 8, 2016 | Employee is pinned between trucks and killed | 2 | $13,300 |
| Rafael & Fariba Gabai; Owner/Builder | Los Angeles | Aug 5, 2016 | Employee is Killed in Fall | 1 | $1,000 |
| Tierra Verde Industries | Irvine | Aug 4, 2016 | Worker Dies from Heart Attack | 0 | pending |
| U.S. Postal Service | Oakland | Aug 3, 2016 | Worker is killed in fall from loading dock | 1 | $51,443 |
| Response Team One | Costa Mesa | Aug 3, 2016 | Employee Dies from Heat Trauma | 0 | pending |
| Durango Farm Management, Inc. | Fowler | Aug 2, 2016 | Employee dies from cardiac arrest while working in vineyard | 4 | $18,685 |
| K Power Global Logistics | City of Industry | Aug 2, 2016 | Employee becomes ill and dies | 3 | $13,270 |
| Williams-Sonoma, Inc. | City of Industry | Aug 2, 2016 | EMPLOYEE KILLED BY HEAT STRESS | 0 | pending |
Every employer must report a workplace death to Cal/OSHA within 8 hours (Labor Code 6409.1), and the family of a worker killed on the job has rights beyond workers' compensation when a third party or a willful safety violation was involved. Your rights.
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.