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Kraft Heinz Food Company Cal/OSHA Inspections and Citations

Benjamin Eghbali, Esq.Legal notes by Benjamin Eghbali, Esq.,

Kraft Heinz Food Company: 3 inspections, 5 citations and $16,745 in penalties, latest opened Jan 7, 2020.

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.

Kraft Heinz Food Company safety record at a glance

Kraft Heinz Food Company has been the subject of 3 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Feb 1, 2017 and Jan 7, 2020. 3 of them were accident inspections. All of them produced citations, 5 in all: 3 serious. Inspectors proposed $24,845 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $16,745. The largest single penalty, $10,220, came from an inspection opened Sep 26, 2018 in Escalon. That places the employer at #8,950 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties.

Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Manufacturing. Worksites in Escalon.

Every inspection, newest first

Click a date for the citations in that inspection.

OpenedCityWhyResultProposedPenaltyClosed
Jan 7, 2020EscalonAccident1 citation 1 serious$9,000$3,825Feb 18, 2022
Sep 26, 2018EscalonAccident3 citations 1 serious$12,470$10,220Apr 9, 2019
Feb 1, 2017EscalonAccident1 citation 1 serious$3,375$2,700Aug 28, 2017

The rules this employer was cited under

Accidents investigated

Aug 17, 2019, Escalon. Employee is hit by magnet in stomach and tears intestine 1 hospitalized Inspection
Sep 21, 2018, Escalon. Employee trips and falls over small cans and fractures hip 1 hospitalized Inspection
Jan 24, 2017, Escalon. Employees amputates finger while operating equipment 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 Kraft Heinz Food Company

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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