Cal/OSHA and OSHA inspections, California

Cal/OSHA Inspections by Year

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

Every year of California inspections since 2000, newest first.

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.

California workplace safety inspections by year opened

YearInspectionsWith citationsCitationsSeriousPenaltiesDeaths
20267,6341,9966,0531,108$13,664,9100
20258,0124,88914,5633,335$40,292,13642
20246,9904,28412,1002,672$30,908,861242
20237,4674,96414,3892,982$27,793,935237
20226,9754,94414,1422,894$28,039,933250
20216,1594,01810,8132,158$22,479,277447
20206,7034,12711,7222,772$23,817,315521
20198,3865,68118,0453,749$28,920,822225
20188,5615,93519,3563,989$33,188,941230
20178,8035,91119,8804,273$32,174,372207
20168,6115,84021,3514,372$31,177,263195
20158,6035,70119,0713,716$25,886,319199
20148,3595,20417,0393,038$19,086,863169
20138,3014,98715,8243,128$17,409,792206
20128,7975,00715,8672,994$17,754,891178
20119,2804,97115,7932,603$15,777,269188
20109,7185,12816,5532,738$14,333,056172
20099,5215,12816,4842,820$13,508,192173
200810,5695,73318,9453,180$16,095,937203
200710,4825,86619,1473,452$15,316,492215
20069,7905,55817,9603,613$16,167,910248
20059,3765,03817,0043,321$15,596,909204
20048,9154,65015,1593,435$15,393,534227
20039,9575,39817,5613,714$17,810,838199
200210,7546,02419,4934,082$18,102,006175
200110,8016,40321,5194,267$18,477,466187
200010,9426,37421,3553,910$17,063,521178

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 A citation can be reduced, vacated or withdrawn on appeal, and an inspection can stay open for months, so a record can change.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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