Monterey Mushrooms, Inc. safety record at a glance
Monterey Mushrooms, Inc. has been the subject of 25 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Feb 23, 2000 and Jun 13, 2024. 13 of them were accident inspections. 17 of them produced citations, 64 in all: 18 serious. Inspectors proposed $303,190 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $185,105. The largest single penalty, $40,980, came from an inspection opened Feb 13, 2020 in Royal Oaks. 3 worker deaths were investigated. That places the employer at #132 of 122,853 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: Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting; Administrative and Support and Waste Management Services. Worksites in Morgan Hill, Royal Oaks, Watsonville, Prunedale.
Every inspection, newest first
Click a date for the citations in that inspection.
| Opened | City | Why | Result | Penalty | Closed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2024 | Morgan Hill | Complaint | 2 citations | $670 $840 proposed | Nov 4, 2024 |
| Apr 17, 2024 | Royal Oaks | Complaint | 8 citations 1 serious | $5,315 $15,925 proposed | Mar 9, 2026 |
| Dec 4, 2020 | Watsonville | Fatality or catastrophe | death 2 citations 1 serious | $18,500 $50,000 proposed | Dec 19, 2022 |
| Oct 13, 2020 | Morgan Hill | Accident | 3 citations 1 serious | $19,000 $50,500 proposed | Dec 19, 2022 |
| Feb 13, 2020 | Royal Oaks | Fatality or catastrophe | death 10 citations 4 serious | $40,980 $52,635 proposed | Mar 10, 2025 |
| Sep 13, 2018 | Royal Oaks | Unprogrammed related | no citations | $0 | Dec 13, 2018 |
| Jul 23, 2018 | Royal Oaks | Fatality or catastrophe | death 4 citations 1 serious | $20,400 $26,800 proposed | Aug 2, 2021 |
| May 1, 2018 | Royal Oaks | Complaint | 1 citation | $600 | Nov 26, 2018 |
| Feb 18, 2016 | Watsonville | Complaint | no citations | $0 | Mar 22, 2016 |
| Feb 4, 2016 | Morgan Hill | Accident | 3 citations 2 serious | $25,810 $36,425 proposed | Jun 26, 2017 |
| Mar 27, 2015 | Morgan Hill | Accident | no citations | $0 | Sep 8, 2015 |
| Feb 24, 2015 | Morgan Hill | Accident | 3 citations | $3,375 | Apr 2, 2018 |
| Mar 25, 2014 | Prunedale | Accident | 2 citations | $2,250 | Mar 2, 2018 |
| Apr 4, 2011 | Morgan Hill | Accident | 1 citation 1 serious | $2,700 $18,000 proposed | Sep 1, 2012 |
| Aug 3, 2010 | Royal Oaks | Complaint | no citations | $0 | Nov 5, 2010 |
| Feb 4, 2009 | Royal Oaks | Planned | 4 citations | $975 $1,310 proposed | May 9, 2016 |
| Jul 24, 2008 | Morgan Hill | Complaint | no citations | $0 | Sep 9, 2008 |
| Nov 14, 2007 | Morgan Hill | Accident | no citations | $0 | Nov 21, 2007 |
| Oct 15, 2007 | Watsonville | Accident | 1 citation | $300 | Oct 23, 2008 |
| Feb 9, 2007 | Morgan Hill | Accident | no citations | $0 | Mar 8, 2007 |
| Feb 9, 2007 | Watsonville | Accident | no citations | $0 | Feb 9, 2007 |
| May 16, 2003 | Watsonville | Complaint | 2 citations | $300 | Sep 30, 2003 |
| Oct 19, 2000 | Morgan Hill | Accident | 1 citation | $350 | Jun 18, 2007 |
| Apr 5, 2000 | Morgan Hill | Accident | 4 citations 2 serious | $8,850 | Dec 16, 2000 |
| Feb 23, 2000 | Morgan Hill | Accident | 13 citations 5 serious | $34,730 | Jun 18, 2007 |
Also recorded as: Monterey Mushrooms; Monterey Mushrooms, Inc. dba Mushroom Farms; Monterey Mushrooms Inc.; Monterey Mushrooms, LLC; Monterey Mushrooms LLC.
The rules this employer was cited under
- 8 CCR 3314, Lockout and cleaning of machinery: 4 citations, 2 serious, $22,255
- 8 CCR 3203, Injury and Illness Prevention Program: 4 citations, 1 serious, $18,825
- 8 CCR 3328, Machinery and equipment, general: 4 citations, $2,075
- 8 CCR 5194, Hazard communication: 3 citations, 1 serious, $25,785
- 8 CCR 3270, Access General: 3 citations, $4,250
- 8 CCR 2500.8, Electrical, wiring methods: 3 citations, $860
- 8 CCR 3205, COVID-19 prevention (expired): 2 citations, 1 serious, $18,500
- 8 CCR 3999, Hand tools: 2 citations, 1 serious, $6,300
Accidents investigated
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.
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If you work, or worked, at Monterey Mushrooms, 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 4, 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.