Hurt at work in Torrance?

Where we are

Our office is in Los Angeles, at 1625 W. Olympic Blvd, Suite 802. We do not have an office in Torrance.

What that means for you:

• The consultation is a phone call, in English, Spanish or Korean. It is free.
• The case is handled by phone, mail and e-filing.
• Your hearings are not in Los Angeles. They are at the district office that has your case, Long Beach for most of Torrance. Most conferences are held by video, and the link is on your hearing notice. Trials, expedited hearings and walk-throughs are in person at that office, and we appear there for our clients.
• If you cannot come to us, we come to you. We make home and hospital visits across the four counties we serve. Say so when you call.

Torrance at a glance

Which office hears a Torrance case

Most of Torrance goes to Long Beach. The Division of Workers’ Compensation publishes a list of California ZIP codes with the district office that serves each one. Every ZIP code from 90501 through 90510 is on it for Long Beach. The four that cover almost all of the city, 90501, 90503, 90504 and 90505, hold about 95% of its land.

One part of the city goes to Marina del Rey. About 4% of Torrance’s land lies in ZIP code 90277, which the city shares with Redondo Beach. The Postal Service’s name for 90277 is Redondo Beach, so a home inside Torrance’s city limits can have a Redondo Beach address. The DWCDWC Division of Workers’ Compensation, part of the Department of Industrial Relations. Administers the system. Information Services Center: 1-800-736-7401.’s list sends 90277 to Marina del Rey. Two slivers of the city, in 90278 and 90248, are on its list for Marina del Rey too.

Shares are of land area, not of people, from the Census Bureau’s ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate ZIP codes. Look up your own ZIP code on the DWC’s locator rather than relying on the city name on your mail.

The rule behind the list: Labor Code § 5501.5

The statute speaks in counties. The ZIP code list is how the DWC shows which office serves each ZIP code. The Application for AdjudicationApplication for Adjudication Opens your case at the Appeals Board. One year. may be filed in:

1. the county where you live on the date of filing;
2. the county where the injury allegedly occurred, or, in cumulative traumaCT — Cumulative trauma Injury from repeated exposure over time. The largest injury category in California and the least claimed. and industrial disease claims, where the last alleged injurious exposure occurred; or
3. if you have a lawyer, the county where your attorney maintains a principal place of business.

The law requires your written consent to the venue chosen, filed with the application. It also says that where the county chosen has more than one Appeals Board office, as Los Angeles County does, the application is filed at a location in that county that meets the criteria in subdivision (a).

What that means in Torrance. Take a worker who lives in the 90277 part of the city and was hurt at a plant in 90501. The list points to Marina del Rey for the home and Long Beach for the job, and both offices are in Los Angeles County. Ask which office before the application is filed, because your written consent goes in with it. A Torrance resident hurt on a job in Orange County can file in Los Angeles County, where they live, or Orange County, where they were hurt.

For a Torrance worker hurt in Torrance, the third option adds no new county. Our principal place of business is in Los Angeles County, the same county as Torrance. Where the attorney’s county is the one chosen, the employer may object within 30 days, and a timely objection sends the case to where you live or where you were hurt. After the case is filed, venue changes only on a petition showing good cause, with the reasons set out specifically. How the offices compare.

The Long Beach office, in practice

1500 Hughes Way, Suite C203, Long Beach, CA 90810 · (562) 590-5001

Court sits in two sessions, 8:30 a.m. to noon and 1:30 to 5:00 p.m. Parking is free, through the front guard station, and the DWC lists a café in Building Pod B, next door. The office moved from Oceangate Street in 2021, so an Oceangate address on anything you are given is out of date. Walk-throughs, what to bring and the rest of the day.

For Torrance, three state offices share one address. The Appeals Board, the DWC’s Information & Assistance Unit (Suite C203) and Cal/OSHA’s Long Beach District Office (Suite C-201) all list 1500 Hughes Way. The court that hears your case, the free help desk and the safety regulator for Torrance workplaces are in the same complex. DIR publishes no hours for the help desk, so call before you go.

If your case is at Marina del Rey, it is at 4720 Lincoln Blvd, 2nd Floor, (310) 482-3820. Parking in the building there is $15.50 a day, and there is no rail service. The Marina del Rey office.

Who works in Torrance, and how they get hurt

The Census counts where Torrance residents work, wherever the job is. The City’s own table counts the largest employers inside city limits. Both point the same way.

Health care comes first. Torrance Memorial Health System is the city’s largest employer, with 4,366 employees, 6.0% of all employment in Torrance, and Providence Little Co of Mary Medical Center, at four locations, is third with 2,533. Education, health care and social assistance is also the largest industry group among residents. Lifting and moving patients wears out backs and shoulders over years, not in one moment. Healthcare worker claims. · Cumulative trauma.

Schools. Torrance Unified School District is second, with 2,695. School employee claims.

Manufacturing. It employs 13.6% of working residents, against 8.5% in Los Angeles County as a whole. Four manufacturers are on the City’s list: Robinson Helicopter Company (1,196), Honeywell International (868), Moog Aircraft Group (696) and Arconic Fastening Systems (605). If a machine caused the injury, there may be a claim against the company that built it, as well as the workers’ comp claim. Manufacturing and aerospace claims. · Third-party claims. · Hearing loss. · Chemical exposure.

Food production. King’s Hawaiian Bakery, West Inc. is ninth, with 633. Food processing claims.

Auto companies. American Honda Motor Company is fourth, with 1,688. Nine years earlier, the same table put Toyota Motor Sales USA first, with 3,790; it is not on the 2025 list.

Shops and restaurants. Retail trade and the arts, accommodation and food services group each employ 9.0% of working residents. Grocery and retail. · Restaurants and food service.

Languages

About one Torrance resident in six speaks English less than “very well”: 23,255 people, 17.2% of residents five and older, below the county’s 23.4%.

Korean is spoken at home here at nearly four times the county rate: 8,780 residents, 6.5%, against 1.7% in Los Angeles County. Of them, 5,088, nearly three in five, told the Census Bureau they speak English less than “very well.” Spanish is spoken at home by 13,278 residents, 9.8%; Chinese by 4,716; Tagalog by 3,404; Vietnamese by 2,790.

The Census language table published for Torrance does not list Japanese separately. Its group for every other Asian and Pacific Island language, beyond Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese and Tagalog, counts 11,369 speakers, 6,184 of whom speak English less than “very well,” the largest such count of any group in the city. A different table counts 14,025 residents who are Japanese alone by race, 9.9% of the city and its largest Asian group, and 10,961 who are Korean alone, 7.7%.

An interpreter is your right, at no cost to you. At medical treatment appointments, a qualified interpreter. At an examination requested by the employer, its insurer, the Appeals Board or a judge, a qualified interpreter provided by the employer. At an Appeals Board hearing, and at an Information & Assistance conference, the claims administratorClaims administrator / adjuster The person handling your claim for the insurer or self-insured employer. pays for a certified interpreter, on your request. This applies to any language, including Japanese. Your interpreter rights.

Spanish- and Korean-language services are provided by attorneys and staff of this firm who are fluent in those languages. Ask for Korean or Spanish when you call.

¿Vive o trabaja en Torrance? Su caso normalmente se tramita en la oficina del WCAB de Long Beach, en 1500 Hughes Way. Consultas gratis en español.

Free help near Torrance

Information & Assistance officers answer questions about a claim and help with the forms, at no cost. They do not represent you. The Long Beach unit is at 1500 Hughes Way, Suite C203, (424) 450-2565. Marina del Rey’s is (310) 482-3820. The DWC’s statewide line is (800) 736-7401. When you may not need a lawyer.

Cal/OSHA takes complaints about unsafe work. The DWC decides benefits. DIR’s office search assigns every Torrance ZIP code we checked, 90277 included, to Cal/OSHA’s Long Beach District Office, 1500 Hughes Way, Suite C-201, (424) 450-2630. So even when a 90277 case is heard at Marina del Rey, the safety complaint goes to Long Beach. Unsafe work and your rights.

This week: get medical care and say it happened at work; tell your employer in writing; file the DWC-1DWC-1 The claim form. Filing it starts the 90-day presumption and the $10,000 treatment obligation. claim form and keep proof of the date. The first 72 hours, in order. · Every deadline, counted from your date.

Talk to us

Free consultation in English, Spanish, or Korean. No fee unless we recover. The attorney fee in a workers’ compensation case is set by a workers’ compensation judgeWCJ Workers’ Compensation Judge. Decides your case. There is no jury. and paid from the recovery. You are not responsible for costs we advance if there is no recovery. What a lawyer costs.