What DEU is
The Disability Evaluation Unit prepares permanent disability ratings when the rating is done by the state rather than by the parties. It is not the hearing office. A case is heard at the WCAB district office; the rating, when DEU prepares it, is a separate step at this unit.
DWC lists a rating unit in the same twenty-three cities as the hearing offices. The ZIP assignment file can send a claim to one hearing office and one rating unit; they are often the same city, and they are not the same function.
As DWC listed this unit
1880 N Main St. Suite 100 Salinas, CA 93906-2204
Address and phone are reprinted from DWC’s office page. Routing notes in that listing — a suite, a floor, a mail stop — stay as printed. This is not a walk-in clinic and not a place to file a DOR.
Also on this
- Salinas WCAB district office →
- Permanent disability rating in the corpus →
- EAMS status codes →
- Benefit notices →
- DWC forms →
- Search the corpus →
- Official DWC DEU page →
Unofficial guide — not legal advice. We reprint the unit’s listing. We do not compute a rating or a case value.