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Ashley Furniture Industries Inc Cal/OSHA Inspections and Citations

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Ashley Furniture Industries Inc: 11 inspections, 24 citations and $83,845 in penalties, latest opened Dec 13, 2018.

Every Cal/OSHA and federal OSHA inspection of a California workplace opened since 2000: 238,466 inspections of 122,854 employers, 447,188 citations, $586,238,760 in penalties, 5,717 deaths investigated.

Ashley Furniture Industries Inc safety record at a glance

Ashley Furniture Industries Inc has been the subject of 11 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Nov 12, 2003 and Dec 13, 2018. 9 of them were accident inspections. 8 of them produced citations, 24 in all: 14 serious. Inspectors proposed $215,390 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $83,845. The largest single penalty, $61,010, came from an inspection opened May 26, 2015 in Colton. That places the employer at #614 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties. The same employer has 2 WARN layoff notices on file with the EDD.

Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Manufacturing; Transportation and Warehousing. Worksites in Redlands, Colton.

Every inspection, newest first

Click a date for the citations in that inspection.

OpenedCityWhyResultProposedPenaltyClosed
Dec 13, 2018RedlandsComplaintno citations00May 10, 2019
Jun 26, 2015ColtonAccident1 citation$5,000$3,000Jul 18, 2017
May 26, 2015ColtonReferral14 citations 10 serious$147,090$61,010Dec 5, 2017
Dec 22, 2014ColtonAccident1 citation 1 serious$11,250$7,875open
Aug 24, 2012ColtonAccident3 citations 2 serious$25,500$8,175Nov 22, 2013
May 23, 2012ColtonAccident1 citation$750$185Feb 15, 2013
Aug 31, 2011ColtonAccidentno citations00Sep 8, 2015
Dec 23, 2008ColtonAccident2 citations$18,750$750Sep 19, 2015
Jan 19, 2006ColtonAccidentno citations00Jan 11, 2007
May 24, 2004ColtonAccident1 citation 1 serious$6,750$2,700Oct 9, 2006
Nov 12, 2003ColtonAccident1 citation$300$150Mar 23, 2010

Also recorded as: Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc.; Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc.

The rules this employer was cited under

Accidents investigated

Aug 16, 2012, Colton. Employee Catches and Injures Fingers in Shredding Machine Inspection
May 18, 2012, Colton. Employee Fractures Right Foot Between Jack and Barrier 1 hospitalized Inspection
Oct 23, 2008, Colton. Employee Is Injured When Pinned by Plywood Sheets 1 hospitalized Inspection
Dec 6, 2005, Colton. Employee's Leg Is Crushed by Forklift 1 hospitalized Inspection
May 7, 2004, Colton. Employee amputates finger while cleaning riveting machine Inspection
Oct 20, 2003, Colton. Employee Fractures Fingers When Struck by Pipe Inspection

How to read this record

Each row is one inspection by Cal/OSHA (or, rarely, federal OSHA) of one worksite. Why is the reason it was opened. Proposed is the penalty the inspector assessed; penalty is the current figure after any appeal or settlement. "Serious" means a realistic possibility of death or serious harm; "willful" and "repeat" carry penalties up to $162,851 each.

Citations document that the employer was told, in writing, what the rule required and when. That knowledge is often the center of a retaliation case: a worker who complained about the hazard an inspector later cited, and was then fired or cut, has a Labor Code 6310 claim, with lost wages and attorney's fees.

Full explainer: how to read a Cal/OSHA record.

If you work, or worked, at Ashley Furniture Industries Inc

Write down what you reported, to whom and when, and what changed afterward: shifts, pay, duties, write-ups. Request the inspection file from the Cal/OSHA district office using the activity number on the inspection page. An injury goes through workers' compensation; a firing, demotion or threat after a safety complaint or injury report is an employment claim with a one-year deadline at the Labor Commissioner (Labor Code 6310) and a longer one in court. Free, confidential review: (800) 371-3088 or send what you have.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor OSHA enforcement data, California inspections. Record last checked Nov 1, 2026. Back to the safety tracker.

About this data: Records come from the U.S. Department of Labor's OSHA enforcement datasets (inspection, violation, accident and accident injury tables), which carry Cal/OSHA's state-plan inspections alongside federal ones. We load every inspection of a California worksite opened since January 1, 2000 and refresh it weekly. Employer names, addresses and industry codes are as the inspecting office recorded them; similar names are grouped where they clearly refer to the same employer. A citation can be reduced, vacated or withdrawn on appeal, and an inspection can stay open for months, so a record can change. Penalties shown as "current" reflect the latest status in the federal file. This page is public information about the employer's regulatory record, not legal advice and not a statement that any person was harmed or any law broken beyond what the record states.

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