COSTCO
451 SOUTH AIRPORT BLVD., SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94080
Having inspection records is common for businesses in regulated industries. Data and methodology
Inspection records
Aug 1, 2002#300837994Aug 1, 2002Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Health#300837994$1,2003 viol.3 violations$1,200 in penalties
Inspection #300837994
Dates
- Opened
- Aug 1, 2002
- Closing Conference Date
- Sep 6, 2002
- Contested
- Oct 7, 2002
- Closed
- Sep 17, 2004
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 220
- Related Activity
- 2 complaints
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 3
- Violation Types
- 1 serious, 2 other-than-serious
- Initial Penalties
- $6,000
- Penalties on Record
- $1,200
- Site Address
- 451 South Airport Blvd., South San Francisco, CA 94080
- Industry
- Not classified in OSHA's inspection record.
Complaint Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as a complaint inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data. OSHA can open complaint-driven inspections after receiving safety or health complaints from workers or their representatives.
Enforcement Outcome
Citation contest activity appears on Oct 7, 2002. Final orders are recorded through Sep 17, 2004. Penalty changes shown on this page reflect the latest amounts published in OSHA's enforcement data.
Violations
Violation list (3 of 3 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 5185 Changing and Charging Storage Batteries OSHA citation code: 5185 K | Other | 1 | 6 | $300 | $300 | Sep 18, 2002 | - | - |
| 01002 | 6151 Portable Fire Extinguishers OSHA citation code: 6151 C01 | Other | 1 | 6 | $300 | $300 | Sep 18, 2002 | - | - |
| 02001 | 5185 Changing and Charging Storage Batteries OSHA citation code: 5185 L | Serious | 1 | 1 | $5,400 | $600 | Oct 2, 2002 | Oct 7, 2002 | Sep 17, 2004 |
Mar 16, 2001#125524470Mar 16, 2001Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Health#125524470$5705 viol.5 violations$570 in penalties
Inspection #125524470
Dates
- Opened
- Mar 16, 2001
- Closing Conference Date
- Mar 22, 2001
- Contested
- May 16, 2001
- Closed
- Jun 14, 2005
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 200
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 5
- Violation Types
- 1 serious, 4 other-than-serious
- Initial Penalties
- $870
- Penalties on Record
- $570
- Site Address
- 451 South Airport Blvd., South San Francisco, CA 94080
- Industry
- Not classified in OSHA's inspection record.
Complaint Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as a complaint inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data. OSHA can open complaint-driven inspections after receiving safety or health complaints from workers or their representatives.
Enforcement Outcome
Citation contest activity appears on May 16, 2001. Final orders are recorded through Oct 26, 2001. Penalty changes shown on this page reflect the latest amounts published in OSHA's enforcement data.
Violations
Violation list (5 of 5 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01003 | 5162 Emergency Eyewash and Shower Equipment OSHA citation code: 5162 C | Other | 1 | 5 | $150 | $150 | Apr 13, 2001 | May 16, 2001 | Oct 26, 2001 |
| 01004 | 6151 Portable Fire Extinguishers OSHA citation code: 6151 C01 | Other | 1 | 5 | $150 | $0 | Apr 13, 2001 | May 16, 2001 | Oct 26, 2001 |
| 01005 | 2340.16 Work Space About Electric Equipment OSHA citation code: 23400016 A | Other | 1 | 5 | $150 | $0 | Apr 13, 2001 | May 16, 2001 | Oct 26, 2001 |
| 01007 | 2500.9 Splices OSHA citation code: 25000009 A | Other | 1 | 5 | $150 | $150 | Apr 13, 2001 | May 16, 2001 | Oct 26, 2001 |
| 03001 | 2500.25 Maintenance of Outer Sheath | Serious | 1 | 5 | $270 | $270 | Apr 13, 2001 | - | - |
Aug 31, 1999#125522185Aug 31, 1999Accident (A) · Partial scope, Safety#125522185$5,0003 viol.3 violations$5,000 in penalties
Inspection #125522185
Dates
- Opened
- Aug 31, 1999
- Closing Conference Date
- Jan 25, 2000
- Closed
- Mar 31, 2000
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 227
- Related Activity
- 1 accident
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 3
- Violation Types
- 3 serious
- Initial Penalties
- $5,750
- Penalties on Record
- $5,000
- Site Address
- 451 South Airport Blvd., South San Francisco, CA 94080
- Industry
- Not classified in OSHA's inspection record.
Accident Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as an accident inspection in the U.S. Department of Labor OSHA enforcement data. Employers must report work-related fatalities within 8 hours, and work-related inpatient hospitalizations, amputations, or losses of an eye within 24 hours. An accident-related inspection does not by itself determine fault.
Incident Investigation Summaries
Incident investigation summaries linked to this inspection through OSHA's accident and injury enforcement data. These summaries describe the reported incident. The enforcement outcome for the linked inspection is in the inspection details above.
Employee's finger tips amputated in meat machine
Violations
Violation list (3 of 3 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 3382 Eye and Face Protection OSHA citation code: 3382 A | Serious | 4 | 12 | $0 | $0 | Feb 15, 2000 | - | - |
| 02001 | 5162 Emergency Eyewash and Shower Equipment OSHA citation code: 5162 A | Serious | 4 | 12 | $750 | $0 | Mar 15, 2000 | - | - |
| 03001 | 3314 The Control of Hazardous Energy for the Cleaning, Repairing, Servicing, Setting-Up, and Adjusting Operations of Prime Movers, Machinery and Equipment, Including Lockout/Tagout OSHA citation code: 3314 A | Serious | 1 | 2 | $5,000 | $5,000 | Feb 2, 2000 | - | - |
Apr 21, 1997#119746824Apr 21, 1997Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Health#119746824$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #119746824
Dates
- Opened
- Apr 21, 1997
- Closing Conference Date
- May 16, 1997
- Closed
- May 16, 1997
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 212
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 451 South Airport Blvd., South San Francisco, CA 94080
- Industry
- Not classified in OSHA's inspection record.
Complaint Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as a complaint inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data. OSHA can open complaint-driven inspections after receiving safety or health complaints from workers or their representatives.
Penalty amounts may differ from final amounts after settlement or judicial review. How to read these records
About these records
A company page groups inspections with the same normalized employer name, city and state; it is not a legal-entity identifier (how pages are grouped).
This page displays public OSHA enforcement data. Status text follows the DOL inspection record first and may include citation-level context when the inspection feed and citation records are out of sync. Penalty amounts shown reflect the latest penalty amounts on record in the DOL database and may differ from initial assessments or final amounts. This is not an official OSHA resource.
OSHA's public enforcement data does not publish a "guilty" or "not guilty" field for inspections. The closest outcome fields available are the citation counts, penalty amounts, contest dates, final-order dates, and the inspection close date shown on this page. How to interpret these status fields. How initial and current penalties are recorded.
OSHA may publish multiple citation rows in the same inspection with the same standard and penalty fields. Separate rows can still differ in OSHA metadata such as citation identifier, recorded instance count, exposed workers, or gravity value. Contest and Final Order columns show citation-level dates from OSHA's enforcement record. A dash means OSHA's record does not currently show that activity for the citation.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor OSHA incident investigation data (`osha_accident` + `osha_accident_injury`). Linked via `rel_insp_nr` to the inspection activity number (exact government key). Injury, body part, source and event values are OSHA's own codes. OSHA states that these fields are not coded according to the requirements under the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System (OIICS). Only the values present in the OSHA record are listed; an incident with no value that resolves in OSHA's code table shows "Injury details not recorded". Where a record covers several people, each field lists every value recorded across them.
Understanding These Penalties
The maximum penalty for a serious violation in 2025 is $16,550 per violation. For willful violations, the range is $11,823 to $165,514. The current penalty column shows the latest amount on record in OSHA's database for each citation. When the current penalty differs from the initial penalty, OSHA's records show that the amount changed during the enforcement process, but this page does not determine the specific reason for each change. Penalty amounts are set by OSHA and adjusted annually for inflation.
4 inspections, 1997 to 2002. Each row is one inspection; point at or tap a row for its dates and totals.
Source: DOL OSHA enforcement data (inspections and violations), linked via activity_nr (exact government key).
Penalty changes: Amounts shown reflect what OSHA's enforcement record publishes. The reason for any change is not stated unless OSHA's record explicitly says so.
Short cases: When a case closed soon after it opened, the closed marker is drawn slightly to the right so both markers stay visible. Each row's card shows the exact dates.