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Cal/OSHA Enforcement Map

Every Cal/OSHA and federal OSHA inspection opened in California from 2020 through 2025, on a map. Zoom to a city, click a dot, and read the citations issued at that address.

By · Data through · 42,115 inspections at 25,374 locations

Inspections opened 2020–2025 · Clusters show total inspections. Green dots include citations, grey represents an inspection without citation, amber represents an unmapped location plotted at the center of a zip code.

Click a cluster to zoom in. Click a dot to see every inspection at that location and its citations.

What the map shows

Each dot is one address. Cal/OSHA and federal OSHA opened 42,115 inspections in California from 2020 through 2025 that we could place on the map, at 25,374 distinct locations, and those inspections produced 77,444 citations. Zoomed out, the map groups nearby addresses into clusters labeled with their total inspections. Zoom in and the clusters split into individual addresses.

A green dot is an address where at least one inspection issued a citation. A grey dot is an address where inspections closed without one. Click any dot to see every inspection at that address, newest first, with the standards cited, the penalty as first issued, and the penalty as it currently stands after any appeal or settlement. Each inspection links to its official record at osha.gov.

An amber dot is a placeholder. 20.7% of inspections carry a site address the geocoder could not match to a street, so they are plotted at the center of their zip code and labeled approximate. Everything in one zip code lands on the same amber dot, which is why amber dots often list many unrelated employers.

How to use it

  • Type a city or five-digit zip code in the search box and press Enter to jump there.
  • Click a cluster to zoom in on it. Clusters dissolve into addresses at street level.
  • Click a dot to open the panel. Click a row in the panel to expand that inspection's citations.

Method

Inspections and citations come from the U.S. Department of Labor enforcement dataset, which California reports into; the map includes inspections opened 2020-01-01 through 2025-12-31 by both Cal/OSHA and the federal OSHA offices that operate in the state. Citation records marked deleted in the source are excluded. Penalties are shown as first issued and as they currently stand; the current figure changes as appeals resolve, and the data on this page was retrieved 2026-08-30.

Site addresses were matched to coordinates with the U.S. Census Bureau's geocoder. 79.3% of inspections matched a street address; the rest fall back to the Census center point of their zip code and are marked approximate. 193 inspections had neither a usable address nor a valid zip code and are not on the map. Addresses are grouped on exact coordinates, so suite and floor variants of one street address, and every tenant of one building, share one dot.

Standard names are taken from the California Code of Regulations Title 8 and the Code of Federal Regulations. A few cited sections have no published title and show a blank name. The map is rebuilt when the source data is refreshed, and the counts on this page are written by the same build so they always match what the map shows.

Frequently asked questions

Is every Cal/OSHA inspection on the map?

Every inspection opened in the window with a usable site address or zip code is on the map. A small number with neither are left out, and the page states how many. Inspections opened before the window are not included.

Why does one dot list several employers?

Dots are placed by address, and one building can hold many tenants. Amber dots gather every inspection in a zip code whose address could not be matched to a street, so they can list employers with no connection to each other.

Why is the current penalty lower than the issued penalty?

Most cited employers appeal or settle, and Cal/OSHA regularly reduces penalties in that process. The map shows both figures, and the current one keeps changing until the case is final. Our appeal-rates and penalty-reduction analyses cover how often and by how much.

Does a dot mean the employer did something wrong?

No. A grey dot is an inspection that closed without a citation, and a citation can be withdrawn on appeal. The map reports what the enforcement record says as of the retrieval date; the linked osha.gov record is the authoritative source.

Can I see other states?

Not yet. The map covers California, including the federal OSHA offices that operate in the state. A national map is planned.