Gold Star Foods, Inc. safety record at a glance
Gold Star Foods, Inc. has been the subject of 7 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Oct 19, 2012 and Feb 27, 2024. 5 of them were accident inspections. 5 of them produced citations, 10 in all: 0 serious. Inspectors proposed $31,330 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $13,335. The largest single penalty, $6,500, came from an inspection opened Oct 19, 2012 in Ontario. That places the employer at #11,655 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties. The same employer has 1 WARN layoff notice on file with the EDD.
Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Wholesale Trade; Transportation and Warehousing. Worksites in Dixon, Garden Grove, Ontario.
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| Opened | City | Why | Result | Proposed | Penalty | Closed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 2024 | Dixon | Unprogrammed related | 1 citation | $450 | $450 | Sep 9, 2024 |
| Jan 25, 2024 | Garden Grove | Accident | no citations | 0 | 0 | Jun 28, 2024 |
| Oct 4, 2023 | Ontario | Complaint | no citations | 0 | 0 | Mar 21, 2024 |
| Aug 26, 2022 | Ontario | Accident | 2 citations | $1,200 | $1,200 | Feb 24, 2023 |
| Sep 29, 2020 | Ontario | Accident | 1 citation | $185 | $185 | Sep 7, 2022 |
| Jun 26, 2020 | Dixon | Accident | 1 citation | $5,000 | $5,000 | May 29, 2023 |
| Oct 19, 2012 | Ontario | Accident | 5 citations | $24,495 | $6,500 | May 15, 2014 |
Also recorded as: Gold Star Foods Inc; Gold Star Foods Inc.
The rules this employer was cited under
- 8 CCR 3203, Injury and Illness Prevention Program: 4 citations, $1,385
- 8 CCR 342, Reporting serious injuries and deaths: 2 citations, $10,000
- 8 CCR 3650, Industrial trucks, operating rules: 1 citation, $900
- 8 CCR 3395, Heat illness prevention, outdoor: 1 citation, $600
- 8 CCR 3664, Industrial trucks, operator training: 1 citation, $300
- 8 CCR 3272: 1 citation, $150
Accidents investigated
Local pages: Garden Grove employment lawyer, Ontario employment lawyer.
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.
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If you work, or worked, at Gold Star Foods, 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.