Citation Archives
Issued before 2012
Posted below are archival Cal/OSHA inspections (before 2012) that resulted in citations issued with penalties of $100,000 or more, or those inspections of significant interest to media and the public.
See the Citations page for the most current citations issued in 2012 and 2013.
| Date Issued | Establishment | Establishment Location | Cal/OSHA Office | Violations | Description and Proposed Penalty |
Documents by Inspection # | Appeal Documentation by Docket # |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/17/2010 | National Steel and Shipbuilding Company | San Diego |
High Hazard Unit (Santa Ana) |
Willful Serious Repeat - 1 Serious Willful - 1 Total Violations - 2 |
Proposed penalties: $137,500
The Division’s High Hazard Unit issued citations after completing an investigation that was prompted by a complaint.
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312317241 : | 2010-R6D2-3793, 2010-R6D2-3794 : |
| 9/27/2011 | All American Window Cleaning Inc. | Huntington Beach | Santa Ana District Office |
Regulatory - 1 General - 2 Willful Serious - 2 Total Violations - 5 |
Proposed penalties: $136,200
Citations were issued as a result of a fatal investigation when a 27 year old window washer was electrocuted while attempting to wash windows on a three story building using a Tucker Pole. The pole was extended 39'4" and came in contact with an electrical utility power line running approximately 37' above the nearby sidewalk.
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31369823 : | 2011-R3D1-2612, 2011-R3D1-2613, 2011-R3D1-2614 : |
| 9/21/2011 |
Shimmick Construction Co., Inc. Obayashi Corporation, A Joint Venture |
Oakland | Santa Ana District Office |
Serious - 6 General - 6 Willful / Serious - 2 Total Violations - 14 |
Proposed penalties: $197,375
Citations were issued by the DOSH Santa Ana district office upon completion of an investigation after receiving a report that on March 22, 2012 a low pressure 2-inch natural gas line had been struck by a back hoe operator while excavating. The incident occurred at the Metropolitan Water District, Diemer Water Treatment Plant in Yorba Linda, CA While the investigation was ongoing, on April 25, 2012 a second back hoe operator struck the same 2-inch natural gas line in the same excavation while under the supervision of the same foreman. There were no reported injuries.
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313169724 : | N/A |
| 8/15/2011 | KB Trim, Inc. | Los Angeles | Santa Ana EEEC District Office |
Serious willful - 2 Serious - 6 General - 1 Total Violations - 9 |
Proposed penalties: $180,265
The Division issued citations including two citations classified as serious willful. KB Trim, Inc. had previously been inspected during an enforcement action on Feb. 16, 2011. At that time two Orders Prohibiting Use (OPUs) had been issued for imminent hazards posed by lack of proper guarding on various machines and equipment, including cloth cutting, cloth rolling, bench grinder, sewing machines and an electrical panel. On a revisit to the business on April 11 to verify abatement in order to remove the OPUs, employees were observed working on some of the OPU-tagged equipment.
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31454755 : | 2011-R6D5-2254, 2011-R6D5-2255, 2011-R6D5-2256, 2011-R6D5-2257, 2011-R6D5-2258, 2011-R6D5-2259, 2011-R6D5-2260, 2011-R6D5-2261, 2011-R6D5-2262 : |
| 7/19/2011 |
Baxter Healthcare Corp. dba Baxter Bioscience |
Los Angeles | Los Angeles District Office |
Serious willful - 4 Serious - 6 General - 1 Total Violations - 11 |
Proposed penalties: $371,250
The Division issued citations after concluding an investigation of a confined space fatality and two serious injuries. On January 21, 2011, an employee entered a vessel measuring approximately 7 by 7 feet with an opening of 18 inches in diameter. The vessel contained 237 liters of a mixture of 40% ethanol, buffers and human plasma. Air in the vessel had been displaced by Nitrogen gas which had been bubbled through the product during the 20 hours prior to the accident. The investigation indicates that the victim entered the vessel to measure the temperature of the mixture using a short probe temperature meter. This was the fifth time he had entered the vessel on his shift. He collapsed upon entering the oxygen deficient vessel atmosphere and was discovered by his supervisor. The supervisor instructed two other technicians to rescue the victim, and also collapsed upon entering. They were all extricated by the Los Angeles Fire Department. The first victim died on scene, and the rescuers suffered serious injuries. One of them remains hospitalized since the January incident while the second technician who attempted the rescue is in good condition.
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300874211 | 2011-R4D1-1945, 2011-R4D1-1946, 2011-R4D1-1947, 2011-R4D1-1948, 2011-R4D1-1949, 2011-R4D1-1950, 2011-R4D1-1951, 2011-R4D1-1952, 2011-R4D1-1953, 2011-R4D1-1954, 2011-R4D1-1955 : |
| 6/1/2011 | CA Dept. of Mental Health/Napa State Hospital | Napa | Santa Rosa District office |
Serious - 2 General - 1 Total Violations - 3 |
Proposed penalties: $16,875
The Division issued citations after concluding an investigation into an attack by an individual on an employee which resulted in serious injury. On December 11, 2010 the employee was assaulted by an inmate while he was escorting him off the ward. The employee was found wandering the grounds by co-workers and was taken to the hospital and treated for severe head injuries. The serious citations issued were for failure to correct the unsafe work practice of employees escorting individuals with poor violent impulse control without proper protective methods and failure to have an emergency alarm system to provide proper, effective and timely warning to police an emergency responders when an employee is experiencing an assault by an individual.
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300752722 | 2011-R1D5-1527, 2011-R1D5-1528, 2011-R1D5-1529 : |
| 4/12/2011 | CA Dept. of Mental Health/Napa State Hospital | Napa | Santa Rosa District Office |
Willful -1 Serious - 4 General - 1 Total Violations - 6 |
Proposed penalties: $100,140
The Division issued citations after concluding an investigation into the death of an employee at the hospital. On October 24, 2010, she had apparently been asphyxiated, and a patient at the hospital has been arrested in her death. Factors believed to be involved in the fatality include lack of adequate employee alarm systems on the unit, non-existent alarm systems outside the units, inadequate police presence in the event of assaults, and no enforcement of written policies and procedures by the employer.
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300752581 : | 2011-R1D5-0938, 2011-R1D5-0939, 2011-R1D5-0940, 2011-R1D5-0941, 2011-R1D5-0942, 2011-R1D5-0943 : |
| 3/9/2011 |
LFP Video Group LLC doing business as Hustler Video |
Canoga Park | High Hazard Unit – Santa Ana |
Serious - 3 Total Violations - 3 |
Proposed penalties: $14,175
Citations resulted after a complaint-based inspection about employer’s failure to ensure the use of appropriate personal protective equipment, such as condoms, to protect employees from possible exposure to potentially infectious materials during the course of producing adult videos.
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312318348 : | 2011-R6D2-0966, 2011-R6D2-0967, 2011-R6D2-0968 : |
| 12/3/2010 | Delta Window Cleaning | Orinda | Concord District Office |
Regulatory - 1 General - 1 Serious - 2 Total Violations - 4 |
Proposed penalties: $17,550
Citations resulted after one window washer died and a second suffered burns on June 5, 2010, when the manlift they were in came within one foot of an overhead power line causing an arc flash and creating a fire inside the lift basket.
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314323643 : | 2010-R2D2-3889, 2010-R2D2-3890, 2010-R2D2-3891 : |
| 11/9/2010 | Reliable Container Corp. | Santa Fe Springs | West Covina District Office |
General - 1 Serious Willful - 2 Total Violations - 3 |
Proposed penalties: $141,050
Citations issued as the result of a fatality investigation. On May 12, 2010, an employee was cleaning the print plates of a print press machine when another employee operating a forklift pushed one end of
the print press machine inward closing the machine and pinning the employee between the forklift and the print press.
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312663628 : | 2010-R3D6-3592, 2010-R3D6-3593, 2010-R3D6-3594 : |
| 9/16/2010 | Pacific Gas & Electric Company | Benicia | Concord District Office |
Serious Willful Accident Related - 1 Serious Accident-Related - 3 Serious - 4 Regulatory - 1 Total Violations - 9 |
Proposed penalties: $176,165
Citations issued as the result of a fatality investigation. An employee was electrocuted while working inside an energized underground enclosure located in a residential area in Benicia.
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311076269 : | 2010-R2D2-3004, 2010-R2D2-3005, 2010-R2D2-3006, 2010-R2D2-3007, 2010-R2D2-3008, 2010-R2D2-3009, 2010-R2D2-3010, 2010-R2D2-3011, 2010-R2D2-3012 |
| 9/8/2010 | Dave Shaw Concrete & Block Inc. | Hermosa Beach | Los Angeles District Office |
Serious Willful - 1 Serious Accident Related - 2 Serious - 2 Regulatory - 2 General - 7 Total Violations - 14 |
Proposed penalties: $128,945
Citations issued in this fatality investigation. An employee fell approximately 15 feet, was engulfed in sandy soil and asphyxiated. He had been standing on pieces of wood lagging he was using as a work
platform, placed on the fork attachment of a Bobcat Loader. The employee was attempting to drive an 8" structural "I" beam into a 16 foot deep by 2 foot diameter hole inside a 5 foot deep excavation, using
a Mikasa portable vibrating tamping rammer when the accident occurred. The structural steel was intended to be part of a shoring system for the excavation. The tamping rammer dislodged from the fork
attachment and the wood the employee was standing on. The employee's supervisor had devised the pile driving procedure used at the time of the accident.
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300873189 : | 2010-R4D1-3021, 2010-R4D1-3022, 2010-R4D1-3023, 2010-R4D1-3024, 2010-R4D1-3025, 2010-R4D1-3026 |
| 4/29/2010 | Gateway Pacific Contractors Inc. | Chico | Redding Field Office |
General - 2 Regulatory – 2 Serious - 5 Serious Willful - 1 Total Violations - 10 |
Proposed penalties: $128,750
The citations are the result of an accident investigation where an employee was injured while working in an 18’ deep excavation that partially collapsed. The excavation was not protected from cave-ins by an adequate protective system designed in accordance with Title 8 Construction Safety Orders. Cal/OSHA inspector returned the next day and observed two employees working in this excavation. A total of ten citations were issued including a $70,000 willful serious citation for employee not protected from cave-ins by adequate protective system.
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120200902 : | 2010-R2D3-1502, 2010-R2D3-1503, 2010-R2D3-1504, 2010-R2D3-1505, 2010-R2D3-1506, 2010-R2D3-1507, 2010-R2D3-1508 : |
| 4/19/2010 | Alta Bates Summit Medical Center | Oakland | Oakland District Office |
General - 5 Regulatory – 2 Serious - 1 Willful - 2 Total Violations - 10 |
Proposed penalties: $101,485
Citations involve violations of the new Aerosol Transmissible Disease standard. They were issued after exposure to staff at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland in connection to a life-threatening
exposure of bacterial meningitis. The case also involves citations issued to the Oakland Police Department and Oakland Fire Department. The exposure resulted in the emergency hospitalizations of an Alta Bates
employee and an Oakland police officer for treatment of bacterial meningitis.
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312358609 : | N/A 2010-R1D4-1620, 2010-R1D4-1621, 2010-R1D4-1622, 2010-R1D4-1623, 2010-R1D4-1624 : |
| 4/19/2010 | Oakland Police Department | Oakland | Oakland District Office |
General - 7 Serious - 2 Total Violations - 9 |
Proposed penalties: $31,520
Citations involve violations of the new Aerosol Transmissible Disease standard. They were issued after exposure to staff at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland in connection to a life-threatening
exposure of bacterial meningitis. The case also involves citations issued to the Oakland Police Department and Oakland Fire Department. The exposure resulted in the emergency hospitalizations of an Alta
Bates employee and an Oakland police officer for treatment of bacterial meningitis.
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312358617 : | 2010-R1D4-1382, 2010-R1D4-1383, 2010-R1D4-1384, 2010-R1D4-1620, 2010-R1D4-1621, 2010-R1D4-1622, 2010-R1D4-1623 : |
| 4/19/2010 | Oakland Fire Department | Oakland | Oakland District Office |
General - 5 Total Violations - 5 |
Proposed penalties: $2,710
Citations involve violations of the new Aerosol Transmissible Disease standard. They were issued after exposure to staff at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland in connection to a life-threatening
exposure of bacterial meningitis. The case also involves citations issued to the Oakland Police Department and Oakland Fire Department. The exposure resulted in the emergency hospitalizations of an Alta Bates
employee and an Oakland police officer for treatment of bacterial meningitis.
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312358732 : | 2010-R1D4-1385 : |
| 4/15/2010 | Chargers Football Company LLC | San Diego | San Diego District Office |
Regulatory - 1 Total Violations - 1 |
Proposed penalties: $375
Citation and special order was issued as the result of a fatality investigation occurring to a regular game day employee who suffered sever trauma to the head and body as a result of a fall in excess of
20 feet from a press box / coaches' booth to stadium seats at Qualcomm Stadium on Oct. 19, 2009. Employee was descending the stairs to the press box when he bent over and fell, tumbling from the window
opening. A special order was issued requiring that the employer provide protection of window openings greater than 30" vertically and 18" horizontally by the installation of guardrails or other barriers.
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312679988 : | 2010-R3D2-1631, 2010-R3D2-1632 : |
| 4/5/2010 | I-COAT COMPANY,LLC | Santa Fe Springs | West Covina District Office |
General - 1 Regulatory –2 Serious - 3 Total Violations - 6 |
Proposed penalties: $142,950
This inspection was initiated by a complaint. From 2005 to 2007 there were four instances where employees wearing latex gloves manually dipped optical lenses in hydrofluoric acid to strip antireflective
and/or hard coats from lenses suffered burns due to tears in the gloves. Gloves worn by employees were subject to cuts from the sharp edges of lenses allowing acid penetration to the skin. One employee
suffered a partial amputation to his right thumb because of hydrofluoric acid induced damage to the bone.
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312662125 : | 2010-R3D6-1169, 2010-R3D6-1170, 2010-R3D6-1171, 2010-R3D6-1172 : |
| 4/1/2010 | Bimbo Bakeries | South San Francisco | High Hazard Compliance Unit - Santa Ana |
General - 4 Willful General - 1 Willful Serious - 1 Total Violations - 6 |
Proposed penalties: $76,750
The Division’s High Hazard Unit has had a focus on the baking industry with Bimbo Bakeries gaining more attention due to recent accidents and ongoing litigation with the company. The inspections at
facilities in Escondido, Montebello and South San Francisco were initiated in November 2009 as a continuation of this ongoing enforcement activity. The High Hazard Unit conducted the inspections and found
that the company’s facilities continued to allow unguarded equipment to be operated.
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313832446 : | 2010-R6D1-1091, 2010-R6D1-1092 : |
| 4/1/2010 | Bimbo Bakeries | Montebello | High Hazard Compliance Unit - Santa Ana |
General - 1 Serious - 5 Total Violations - 6 |
Proposed penalties: 30,250
The Division’s High Hazard Unit has had a focus on the baking industry with Bimbo Bakeries gaining more attention due to recent accidents and ongoing litigation with the company. The inspections at
facilities in Escondido, Montebello and South San Francisco were initiated in November 2009 as a continuation of this ongoing enforcement activity. The High Hazard Unit conducted the inspections and
found that the company’s facilities continued to allow unguarded equipment to be operated.
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312314644 : | 2010-R6D2-1096, 2010-R6D2-1097, 2010-R6D2-1098, 2010-R6D2-1099, 2010-R6D2-1100, 2010-R6D2-1111 : |
| 4/1/2010 | Bimbo Bakeries | Escondido | High Hazard Compliance Unit - Santa Ana |
General - 1 Serious - 1 Willful - 3 Total Violations - 5 |
Proposed penalties: $123,535
The Division’s High Hazard Unit has had a focus on the baking industry with Bimbo Bakeries gaining more attention due to recent accidents and ongoing litigation with the company. The inspections at
facilities in Escondido, Montebello and South San Francisco were initiated in November 2009 as a continuation of this ongoing enforcement activity. The High Hazard Unit conducted the inspections and found
that the company’s facilities continued to allow unguarded equipment to be operated.
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312314677 : | 2010-R6D2-1102, 2010-R6D2-1103, 2010-R6D2-1104, 2010-R6D2-1105, 2010-R6D2-1106 : |
| 3/9/2010 | University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) | Los Angeles | Los Angeles District Office |
Regulatory – 1 Serious – 1 Serious Accident Related – 1 Total Violations - 3 |
Proposed penalties: $29,300
Non-reported accident was discovered by DOSH on September 15, 2009. The non-reported accident occurred on Nov. 17, 2007. At the time of this accident a graduate student researcher received serious burn injuries when ethanol he was working with was ignited by a flame from a Bunsen burner while performing flame sterilization.
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126203041 : | 2010-R4D1-1005, 2010-R4D1-1006, 2010-R4D1-1007 |
| 2/26/2010 | Soex West Textile Recycling USA LLC | Fresno | Fresno District Office |
General – 2 Serious – 6 Willful General – 2 Willful Serious - 1 Total Violations - 11 |
Proposed penalties: $207,365
An accident investigation was opened after an employee’s right hand thumb was amputated while cleaning a running comber – dual employer investigation.
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312913726 : | 2010-R2D5-0767, 2010-R2D5-0768, 2010-R2D5-0769, 2010-R2D5-0770, 2010-R2D5-0771, 2010-R2D5-0772, 2010-R2D5-0773, 2010-R2D5-0774, 2010-R2D5-0775, 2010-R2D5-0776 : |
| 2/26/2010 | Strategic Outsourcing Inc. | Fresno | Fresno District Office |
General – 2 Serious – 6 Willful General – 2 Willful Serious - 1 Total Violations - 11 |
Proposed penalties: $207,365
An accident investigation was opened after an employee’s right hand thumb was amputated while cleaning a running comber – dual employer investigation.
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312913700 : | 2010-R2D5-0905, 2010-R2D5-0906, 2010-R2D5-0907, 2010-R2D5-0908, 2010-R2D5-0909, 2010-R2D5-0910, 2010-R2D5-0911, 2010-R2D5-0912, 2010-R2D5-0913, 2010-R2D5-0914 : |
| 2/24/2010 & 2/25/2010 | University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) | Los Angeles | Los Angeles District Office |
Regulatory – 1 General – 9 Serious – 5 Repeat Serious - 1 Total Violations - 16 |
Proposed penalties: $67,720
Complaint inspection on the Molecular Science Lab.
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126203017 : | 2010-R4D1-0794, 2010-R4D1-0795, 2010-R4D1-0796, 2010-R4D1-0797, 2010-R4D1-0798, 2010-R4D1-0799, 2010-R4D1-0800 : |
| 1/21/2010 | California Department of Water Resources | Oroville | Sacramento District Office |
Serious – 4 General – 1 Total Violations - 5 |
Proposed penalties: $141,375
These citations are the result of an accident investigation at Hyatt Power Facility located inside the Oroville Dam where an employee was seriously injured when he was struck by various tools and
equipment located in the access tunnel of the river valve chamber. The employee was pulled over the edge of a concrete platform toward the water in the tunnel when a vacuum created by opening the
river valves after the energy dispersion ring had been removed.
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313228637 : | 2010-R2D1-0366, 2010-R2D1-0367, 2010-R2D1-0368, 2010-R2D1-0369, 2010-R2D1-0370, 2010-R2D1-0371 : |
| 1/20/2010 | Golden State Foods | City of Industry | West Covina District Office |
Serious Accident-Related – 1 Willful Serious – 1 Serious - 2 Total Violations - 4 |
Proposed penalties: $103,300
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312661507 : | 2010-R3D6-0224, 2010-R3D6-0225, 2010-R3D6-0226, 2010-R3D6-0227 : |
| 1/11/2010 | Mission Flavors & Fragrances | Foothill Ranch | Santa Ana High Hazard District office |
Willful General – 1 Willful Serious - 3, Serious - 2 Total Violations - 6 |
Proposed penalties: $192,300
Citations issued as the result of a follow up inspection conducted to evaluate compliance with a Special Order and abatement of citations previously issued on January 20, 2005 which include accident-related for diacetyl exposures to employees.
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312313687 : | 2010-R6D2-0182, 2010-R6D2-0183, 2010-R6D2-0184, 2010-R6D2-0185, 2010-R6D2-0186, 2010-R6D2-0187: |
| 1/11/2010 | Carmi Flavors | Commerce | Santa Ana High Hazard District office |
Willful serious - 1 Serious - 3 General - 6 Regulatory - 2 Total Violations - 12 |
Proposed penalties: $83,720
Citations issued as the result of a follow up inspection conducted to evaluate compliance with a Special Order and abatement of citations previously issued on October 16, 2006 which include accident-related for diacetyl exposures to employees.
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312313737 : | 2010-R6D2-0236, 2010-R6D2-0237, 2010-R6D2-0238, 2010-R6D2-0239 : |