Empire Farm Labor Contractor, LLC safety record at a glance
Empire Farm Labor Contractor, LLC has been the subject of 12 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Aug 31, 2007 and May 13, 2026. 6 of them were planned inspections. 4 of them produced citations, 11 in all: 1 serious. Inspectors proposed $14,085 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $9,510. The largest single penalty, $5,735, came from an inspection opened Aug 31, 2017 in Gilroy. That places the employer at #15,695 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties. It also appears in 3 federal wage and hour cases.
Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting; Administrative and Support and Waste Management Services. Worksites in Ripon, Bard, Greenfield, Gilroy, Stockton, Oakdale, Delano.
Every inspection, newest first
Click a date for the citations in that inspection.
| Opened | City | Why | Result | Penalty | Closed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 2026 | Ripon | Planned | open, no citations yet | $0 | open |
| Jan 29, 2026 | Bard | Planned | 3 citations | $1,355 | open |
| Aug 19, 2025 | Greenfield | Planned | 3 citations | $1,620 $2,000 proposed | Jun 22, 2026 |
| Oct 2, 2024 | Gilroy | Planned | no citations | $0 | Oct 21, 2025 |
| Jul 7, 2024 | Stockton | Programmed related | no citations | $0 | Jul 23, 2024 |
| Jun 30, 2024 | Stockton | Planned | no citations | $0 | Dec 12, 2024 |
| Apr 7, 2022 | Gilroy | Referral | no citations | $0 | May 5, 2022 |
| Jul 9, 2021 | Gilroy | Referral | 1 citation | $800 | Sep 6, 2021 |
| Jun 22, 2021 | Oakdale | Complaint | no citations | $0 | Nov 18, 2021 |
| Aug 31, 2017 | Gilroy | Referral | 4 citations 1 serious | $5,735 $9,930 proposed | Jan 16, 2018 |
| Aug 17, 2011 | Delano | Referral | no citations | $0 | Sep 22, 2011 |
| Aug 31, 2007 | Delano | Planned | no citations | $0 | Sep 12, 2007 |
Also recorded as: Empire Farm Labor Contractor, Inc.; Empire Farm Labor Contractor; Empire Farm Labor Contractor LLC.
The rules this employer was cited under
- 8 CCR 3395, Heat illness prevention, outdoor: 6 citations, 1 serious, $7,020
- 8 CCR 3203, Injury and Illness Prevention Program: 2 citations, $765
- 8 CCR 6401.9: 1 citation, $700
- 8 CCR 3380, Personal protective equipment: 1 citation, $650
- 8 CCR 4300.32: 1 citation, $375
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. Penalty is the current figure after any appeal or settlement; where it was reduced, the amount the inspector first proposed is shown under it. "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 Empire Farm Labor Contractor, LLC
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.