Oxnard WCAB District Office

Before you go

Parking: free, in a large lot. One of the easier offices in the system to attend.

Transit: Gold Coast Transit serves the area.

Food: the Oxnard Outlet — Café Amri, Luna's Mexican Tradition, Uptown Pizza — plus fast food within four blocks.

One local practice note: this office asks for advance notice on emergency matters. If you have an urgent issue, do not assume you can simply appear with it.

What is remote and what is not

Remote by video: status conferences, mandatory settlement conferences, priority conferences, rating MSCs, and lien conferences.

In person: trials, lien trials, expedited hearings, and walk-throughs.

Walk-through hours: the standard 8:00–11:00 a.m. and 1:00–4:00 p.m. window. Note that walk-throughs from the Goleta area may also be taken here when the Goleta presiding judge is unavailable — see the Goleta office page.

Who is heard here

Oxnard serves Ventura County by ZIP code — Oxnard, Ventura, Camarillo, Thousand Oaks, Simi Valley, Moorpark, Santa Paula, Fillmore, Port Hueneme, and the surrounding communities.

The docket is shaped by one of California's most significant agricultural regions, alongside a substantial coastal and industrial economy: agriculture and field work, food processing and packing, warehouse and cold storage, truck driving, construction, healthcare, landscaping, hospitality, and manufacturing.

Two things matter disproportionately in this district.

Heat. Field and packing work runs against 8 CCR § 3395 — shade above 80°F, high-heat procedures at 95°F, with agriculture a named industry — and indoor packing and cold storage facilities are covered by § 3396 since July 23, 2024. Heat illness claims.

Pesticides. California requires pesticide use reporting, so there is frequently a public record of what was applied, where, and when — which is unusually good evidence in an exposure claim. Chemical exposure claims. · Agricultural worker claims.

And staffing arrangements are common in agriculture and packing, which raises the § 2810.3 client-employer question. How that works.

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