Cal/OSHA and OSHA inspections, California

Cal/OSHA Inspections by Industry

Benjamin Eghbali, Esq.Legal notes by Benjamin Eghbali, Esq.,

Every industry with a Cal/OSHA or OSHA inspection in California since 2000, ranked by inspections.

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.

20 California industries with Cal/OSHA inspections

Ordered by inspections since 2000. Industries follow the NAICS sector the inspecting office coded.

IndustryInspectionsCitationsSeriousPenaltiesDeathsLatest
Construction66,768103,46420,939$144,229,8521,200Oct 27, 2026
Manufacturing32,36998,59125,283$151,302,626598Oct 27, 2026
Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting18,41027,4784,924$39,776,961758Oct 27, 2026
Administrative and Support and Waste Management Services13,72921,8863,825$36,467,205579Oct 26, 2026
Retail Trade9,86517,8152,424$21,282,922225Oct 22, 2026
Transportation and Warehousing9,65615,2722,972$26,974,543393Oct 22, 2026
Other Services (except Public Administration)7,93324,9223,257$16,946,698139Oct 23, 2026
Accommodation and Food Services7,83918,6691,977$14,896,71393Oct 23, 2026
Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction7,0067,300559$6,857,66975Oct 26, 2026
Health Care and Social Assistance6,81110,0071,697$12,614,744243Oct 27, 2026
Public Administration6,6488,2573,010$10,517,507267Oct 26, 2026
Wholesale Trade5,68913,3682,423$21,513,633188Oct 26, 2026
Educational Services3,9714,856606$6,051,45082Oct 21, 2026
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services2,7474,450709$6,221,846109Oct 23, 2026
Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation2,3314,6241,266$7,528,74387Oct 27, 2026
Real Estate and Rental and Leasing2,3154,084639$5,683,34885Oct 23, 2026
Utilities2,0533,590649$6,587,93570Oct 13, 2026
Information1,5632,014354$3,510,87140Oct 23, 2026
Finance and Insurance50451436$420,62910Oct 14, 2026
Management of Companies and Enterprises333110$61,3450Jul 6, 2026

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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