5,555 inspections opened after a worker died
5,717 deaths in all since 2000, newest first, page 40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contra Costa Water District | Brentwood | Apr 21, 2008 | Employee Dies from Pre-Existing Condition | 3 | $350 |
| Nissen Vineyard Services, Inc. | Upper Lake | Apr 16, 2008 | Employee Is Caught in Machine and Is Drowned | 6 | $30,300 |
| Hill Crane Service Inc | Adelanto | Apr 16, 2008 | Employee Is Killed by Contact with Overhead Powerlines | 3 | $2,925 |
| Giampolini & CO. | San Francisco | Apr 14, 2008 | Employee Is Injured in Fall from Ladder, Later Dies | 2 | $1,800 |
| Miguel Ramos | Newcastle | Apr 14, 2008 | Worker Is Killed When Struck by Truck | 0 | pending |
| Sears Logistic Service | Delano | Apr 11, 2008 | Employee Injures Hand in Conveyor Belt | 2 | $7,030 |
| Jodan Farms Nursery | Murrieta | Apr 11, 2008 | Employee Is Killed When Run over by Dump Truck | 5 | $7,160 |
| Inglewood Parks & Recreation | Inglewood | Apr 8, 2008 | Tree Trimmer Is Caught and Killed in Chipper | 5 | $19,115 |
| Barler Equipment Inc | Silerado | Apr 8, 2008 | Employee Is Killer When Dozer Rolls Over | 0 | pending |
| California United Terminals | Long Beach | Apr 4, 2008 | Employee Is Killed When Run over by Lift Truck | 1 | $4,000 |
| Shahnaz Bano Gorsi dba SG Service | Yolo | Apr 4, 2008 | Employee Is Killed When Caught in Driveline | 1 | $200 |
| Santa Clara Transfer Service, Inc. | Aromas | Apr 1, 2008 | Trucker Is Killed in Fall from Truck | 0 | pending |
| Seven-Up/Rc Bottling Company Inc | Vernon | Mar 27, 2008 | Employee Is Crushed and Killed by Machine Elevator | 4 | $3,150 |
| JRK Vineyard Management, Inc. dba Stagecoach Viney | Napa | Mar 27, 2008 | Employee Is Crushed and Killed by Falling Mower | 4 | $17,075 |
| La City Fire Department | Los Angeles | Mar 26, 2008 | Firefighter Is Killed When Struck by Door | 0 | pending |
| Island District Honey | Hanford | Mar 26, 2008 | Forklift Operator Is Killed When Struck by Car | 2 | $11,060 |
| Pouk & Steinle Inc | Banning | Mar 25, 2008 | Employee Killed When Trench Collapses | 5 | $20,000 |
| AJ Borba Holsteins | Hilmar | Mar 24, 2008 | Employee Is Killed in Fall Through Skylight | 2 | $12,800 |
| Nelson Drywall Systems, Inc. | Alamo | Mar 24, 2008 | Employee Is Injured in Fall from Ladder, Later Dies | 0 | pending |
| GO Fresh Produce Inc | Los Angeles | Mar 24, 2008 | Salesman Dies of Heart Attack | 5 | $600 |
| Calipatria State Prison | Calipatria | Mar 21, 2008 | Correctional Officer Dies from Pneumonia | 4 | $13,400 |
| Mammoth Mountain Ski Area | Mammoth Lakes | Mar 21, 2008 | Employee Collides with Tree While Skiing and Is Killed | 0 | pending |
| Advanced Maintenance | Santa Fe Springs | Mar 20, 2008 | Employee Is Killed in Fall Through Ceiling Opening | 7 | $9,595 |
| Premium Employment Services, Inc. | Hollister | Mar 18, 2008 | Employee Is Struck and Killed by Vehicle | 0 | pending |
| Golden Construction & Excavation | Bakersfield | Mar 17, 2008 | Employee Is Killed When Buried Under Load of Dirt | 1 | $2,950 |
| Huntington Beach Union High School District | Huntington Beach | Mar 17, 2008 | Employee Falls and Strikes Head, Later Dies | 3 | $625 |
| Division Three Construction Services, Inc. | Los Angeles | Mar 11, 2008 | Employee Is Struck by Jib, Crushed Against Wall, Later Dies | 1 | $9,500 |
| Brunton Enterprises dba Plas-Tal MFG CO | Ontario | Mar 4, 2008 | Employee Is Injured in Fall Into Elevator Shaft, Later Dies | 2 | $16,850 |
| Bentley Monica Apartment | Los Angeles | Mar 4, 2008 | Employee Is Killed When He Falls from Roof | 2 | $700 |
| Aes Redondo Beach LLC | Redondo Beach | Mar 3, 2008 | Employee Gets Run over by Van | 0 | pending |
| Paramount Scaffold Inc | Los Angeles | Mar 1, 2008 | Worker Is Killed While Dismantling Scaffold | 3 | $18,000 |
| Vernon Enterprises | Snelling | Feb 28, 2008 | Worker Is Killed after Falling from Roof | 2 | $2,250 |
| Roo-Hide Saddlery, LLC | El Centro | Feb 27, 2008 | Maintenance Worker Dies after Fall | 1 | $175 |
| Jose Chavez | Rancho Palos Verdes | Feb 23, 2008 | Employee Is Killed in Fall from Tree | 0 | pending |
| Gonsalves & Santucci, Inc. | Sunnyvale | Feb 19, 2008 | Employee Is Killed in Fall in Garage Under Construction | 1 | $6,750 |
| Duncan McCormack Iii | Dixon | Feb 19, 2008 | Worker Is Crushed by Bulldozer | 3 | $5,835 |
| Economy Lumber CO., of Oakland | Oakland | Feb 15, 2008 | Employee Is Killed When Crushed by Load of Mixed Lumber | 4 | $7,485 |
| A Rivera Trucking Inc | Fontana | Feb 11, 2008 | Employee Is Struck by Truck and Trailer, Later Dies | 1 | $85 |
| Wilshire Vista Auto Repair Inc | Los Angeles | Feb 8, 2008 | Employee Dies in Fall from Elevated Location | 7 | $5,955 |
| Bae Systems San Diego Ship Repair Inc. | San Diego | Feb 2, 2008 | Employee Killed When Caught Between Crane and Dry Dock | 1 | $4,000 |
| AM Valero Foodstore | Madera | Feb 1, 2008 | Sales Clerk Is Crushed When Hit by Car, Later Dies | 4 | $19,300 |
| Pre-Press International dba Digital Pre-Press Int. | San Francisco | Jan 29, 2008 | Die Cuting Operator Killed in Platen Press Machine | 14 | $62,147 |
| Lvi Environmental Svcs.Inc.Dba/Iconco/Lvi Demo SVC | San Francisco | Jan 28, 2008 | Employee Is Killed in Structure Collapse; Two Are Injured | 0 | pending |
| Bubble Bath Car Wash | Oceanside | Jan 28, 2008 | Employee Dies in Fall from Extension Ladder | 2 | $4,085 |
| Kenneth Pukala | San Diego | Jan 27, 2008 | Worker Dies of Accidental Drowning | 0 | pending |
| Haig Engineering & Construction, Inc. | Lancaster | Jan 25, 2008 | One employee killed, one injured, by carbon monoxide | 0 | pending |
| Joe's Lawn & Garden Services | Vacaville | Jan 23, 2008 | Employee killed in fall while building roof of gazebo | 3 | $325 |
| JC Metal Specialists, Inc. | South San Francisco | Jan 22, 2008 | Employee Crushed by Falling Concrete Wall | 5 | $11,430 |
| Robertsons Transport LTD | Oro Grande | Jan 21, 2008 | Employee Dies in Fall from Truck Trailer | 2 | $0 |
| Vistar Corp dba Vistar of Ontario | Ontario | Jan 18, 2008 | Employee Crushed Between Forklift and Wall | 2 | $300 |
| California C & R Inc. | San Francisco | Jan 17, 2008 | Employee Dies in Fall from Roof | 6 | $56,385 |
| Garfield Beach CVS, LLC | San Bernardino | Jan 16, 2008 | Employee Is Killed When Crushed by Stacker | 2 | $18,000 |
| City of Los Angeles, Dept.Of Animal Control | San Pedro | Jan 11, 2008 | Animal Control Worker Dies from Heart Attack | 0 | pending |
| Pacific Gas and Electric Company | Cool | Jan 11, 2008 | Employee electrocuted in contact with energized guy line | 1 | $10,000 |
| Ivy Painting, CO. | Berkeley | Jan 9, 2008 | Employee killed in fall when extension ladder slips out | 6 | $5,300 |
| Yuba CO Public Works | Marysville | Jan 7, 2008 | Employee Is Struck by Tree Branch, Later Dies | 1 | $525 |
| Dave's Diving Service | Sausalito | Jan 7, 2008 | Employee Dies from Hypothermia When Retrieving Work Boat | 0 | pending |
| Weed Construction | Alturas | Jan 4, 2008 | Employee killed when modular unit falls during transit | 1 | $16,200 |
| Davey Tree Surgery Company | Ben Lomond | Jan 3, 2008 | Employee Is Struck and Killed by Falling Tree Stump | 2 | $6,200 |
| Ca-Department of Justice | San Francisco | Dec 28, 2007 | Employee Dies from Heart Attack | 2 | $0 |
| Faria & Sons Dairy | Visalia | Dec 27, 2007 | Farm Worker Is Killed When Run over by Tractor | 3 | $1,800 |
| HPG Management | Los Angeles | Dec 26, 2007 | Employee Is Killed in Fall from Roof | 2 | $685 |
| Lindero Masonry Inc. | Thousand Oaks | Dec 21, 2007 | Employee's hand lacerated by portable circular saw | 0 | pending |
| Grove Glass Company | Garden Grove | Dec 17, 2007 | Employee Is Electrocuted and Is Killed | 5 | $8,245 |
| Page Mill Property Services, LLC | East Palo Alto | Dec 16, 2007 | Employee Is Electrocuted and Is Killed | 5 | $36,275 |
| CA Transportation | Elk Grove | Dec 14, 2007 | Employee killed when struck while crossing exit ramp | 1 | $4,050 |
| Select Staffing | Santa Clarita | Dec 10, 2007 | Employee's Finger Is Amputated in Pump | 3 | $22,950 |
| La County Sheriffs- Mira Loma Detention Center | Lancaster | Dec 10, 2007 | Employee Is Electrocuted, Suffers Heart Attack, and Dies | 3 | $18,750 |
| Robertsons dba Ready Mix Concrete | Lucerne Valley | Dec 7, 2007 | Employee Is Killed When Pinned Between Two Vehicles | 2 | $1,030 |
| Dreamworks | Universal City | Dec 6, 2007 | Employee Fractures Elbow in Fall from Ladder | 0 | pending |
| S.F. General Hospital | San Francisco | Dec 4, 2007 | Employee Is Found Unconscious, Later Pronounced Dead | 1 | $250 |
| Garcia Construction | Arvin | Dec 3, 2007 | Two employees die of asphyxia when buried by sand (2 deaths) | 0 | pending |
| Hoyt-Shepston Inc. | Oakland | Dec 3, 2007 | Employee Is Killed When Run over by Truck | 1 | $225 |
| Tahoe-Truckee Sierra Disposal | Truckee | Nov 30, 2007 | Employee Falls from Garbage Truck, Hits Head, Later Dies | 2 | $7,000 |
| Caltrans | San Bernardino | Nov 29, 2007 | Employee Is Struck by Motor Vehicle and Later Dies | 0 | pending |
| Sparko Electric Inc | Hawthorne | Nov 29, 2007 | Employee electrocuted while installing electrical panels | 3 | $2,435 |
| M & S Pacific Trade CO | Dublin | Nov 28, 2007 | Employee Is Crushed and Killed by Falling Materials | 0 | pending |
| Antonio Medina dba Antonio Tree SVC, aka Medina Tr | Cerritos | Nov 26, 2007 | Employee Is Trapped by Falling Palm Fronds and Is Killed | 4 | $1,350 |
| Palmer Tank & Construction, Inc. | Bakersfield | Nov 21, 2007 | Two Employees Are Burned in Tank Explosion, One Dies | 0 | pending |
| DVD Walnut Processing | Hanford | Nov 20, 2007 | Employee Is Killed in Fall from Pruning Stand | 3 | $12,600 |
| United Airlines | San Francisco | Nov 16, 2007 | Employee Is Killed in Fall from Overhead Crane | 0 | pending |
| Jesus Santana dba Vista Victory Outreach | Fallbrook | Nov 16, 2007 | Employee Suffocates When Trapped by Palm Fronds | 2 | $2,925 |
| Gurdon Brothers Communications Construction Inc | Lake Arrowhead | Nov 14, 2007 | Employee in lift basket killed when truck overturns | 8 | $32,190 |
| Rite Aid | Long Beach | Nov 9, 2007 | EMPLOYEE DIES AFTER STRUGGLING WITH A SUSPECTED SHOPLIFTER | 0 | pending |
| JM Tree Service Inc | Tustin | Nov 8, 2007 | Employee Is Shredded by Wood Chipper | 0 | pending |
| Plastic Display Products | Vista | Nov 7, 2007 | Employee Is Killed When Crushed in Power Press | 5 | $37,650 |
| Pelican Products | Torrance | Nov 7, 2007 | Employee Amputates Thumb in Saw | 0 | pending |
| Dowell and Bradley Construction Inc dba JR Constru | Anaheim | Nov 5, 2007 | Employee dies after fall from platform, not work-related | 1 | $135 |
| Lucich Contract Falling | Strawberry Valley | Nov 4, 2007 | Employee Is Killed When Struck by Falling Tree | 0 | pending |
| Arboral Tree Service | Los Angeles | Nov 2, 2007 | Employee Is Asphyxiated When Stuck in Tree | 0 | pending |
| Lance Ryerson, dba Lance Construction | Chatsworth | Nov 2, 2007 | Employee killed in fall through roof opening | 3 | $4,220 |
| Sure Shine Maintenance | Irvine | Nov 2, 2007 | Employee killed in fall while descending ladder | 3 | $2,135 |
| Barr Engineering Inc | Irvine | Nov 1, 2007 | Employee killed in fall through skylight | 2 | $8,610 |
| N.J. Kann Painting, Inc. | San Jose | Oct 31, 2007 | Employee injured in fall from roof, later dies | 2 | $8,000 |
| Firth Rixson/Schlosser Forge Company | 19951689ucamonga | Oct 31, 2007 | Employee Is Struck and Killed by Falling Object | 4 | $37,125 |
| Southern California Edison | Torrance | Oct 31, 2007 | Employee Suffers Apparent Heart Attack and Later Dies | 0 | pending |
| El Camino Paving, Inc. | Saratoga | Oct 30, 2007 | Employee killed when struck by vehicle after jumping out | 1 | $14,400 |
| Bulk Transportation | Walnut | Oct 29, 2007 | Employee Is Asphyxiated in Cargo Tank | 6 | $73,010 |
| Arnold L Cummings | Forbestown | Oct 28, 2007 | Tractor Operator Is Killed When Tractor Flips Over | 0 | pending |
| Dos Pueblos Ranch Holdings LLC | Goleta | Oct 27, 2007 | Employee Is Killled When Struck in Head by Falling Tree Limb | 5 | $19,800 |
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.