Jose Valencia safety record at a glance
Jose Valencia has been the subject of 11 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Apr 25, 2013 and Jun 5, 2015. 11 of them were complaint inspections. 7 of them produced citations, 17 in all: 0 serious, 6 repeat. Inspectors proposed $29,780 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $29,780. The largest single penalty, $13,750, came from an inspection opened Jun 2, 2015 in Poplar. That places the employer at #3,575 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties.
Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting. Worksites in Poplar, Earlimart.
Every inspection, newest first
Click a date for the citations in that inspection.
| Opened | City | Why | Result | Proposed | Penalty | Closed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 2015 | Poplar | Complaint | 2 citations 2 repeat | $9,600 | $9,600 | Sep 30, 2015 |
| Jun 4, 2015 | Poplar | Complaint | 1 citation | $160 | $160 | Sep 30, 2015 |
| Jun 2, 2015 | Poplar | Complaint | 5 citations 3 repeat | $13,750 | $13,750 | Sep 30, 2015 |
| May 22, 2015 | Earlimart | Complaint | no inspection made | 0 | 0 | May 27, 2015 |
| Feb 3, 2015 | Earlimart | Complaint | 3 citations 1 repeat | $3,300 | $3,300 | Apr 20, 2015 |
| Oct 2, 2014 | Earlimart | Complaint | no inspection made | 0 | 0 | Oct 3, 2014 |
| Aug 1, 2014 | Poplar | Complaint | 1 citation | $750 | $750 | Nov 19, 2014 |
| Apr 18, 2014 | Earlimart | Complaint | 2 citations | $410 | $410 | Sep 15, 2014 |
| Apr 10, 2014 | Earlimart | Complaint | 3 citations | $1,810 | $1,810 | Jun 18, 2014 |
| Jun 21, 2013 | Poplar | Complaint | no inspection made | 0 | 0 | Oct 30, 2013 |
| Apr 25, 2013 | Earlimart | Complaint | no inspection made | 0 | 0 | Apr 29, 2013 |
Also recorded as: Jose Valencia dba Valencia Farms.
The rules this employer was cited under
- 8 CCR 3457, Field sanitation: 12 citations, $28,700
- 8 CCR 3395, Heat illness prevention, outdoor: 4 citations, $875
- 8 CCR 3439: 1 citation, $205
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 Jose Valencia
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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.