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Nature Quality Cal/OSHA Inspections and Citations

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

Nature Quality: 5 inspections, 10 citations and $8,345 in penalties, latest opened May 12, 2009.

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.

Nature Quality safety record at a glance

Nature Quality has been the subject of 5 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Sep 21, 2000 and May 12, 2009. 3 of them were accident inspections. 4 of them produced citations, 10 in all: 2 serious. Inspectors proposed $29,970 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $8,345. The largest single penalty, $4,295, came from an inspection opened May 12, 2009 in San Martin. That places the employer at #17,072 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties.

Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Manufacturing; Accommodation and Food Services. Worksites in San Martin.

Every inspection, newest first

Click a date for the citations in that inspection.

OpenedCityWhyResultProposedPenaltyClosed
May 12, 2009San MartinAccident3 citations 1 serious$4,295$4,295Sep 21, 2009
Aug 10, 2006San MartinAccident1 citation$16,200$375Jun 10, 2009
Dec 2, 2005San MartinAccidentno citations00Apr 28, 2006
Oct 31, 2005San MartinComplaint5 citations 1 serious$9,325$3,525Feb 7, 2007
Sep 21, 2000San MartinComplaint1 citation$150$150May 21, 2001

The rules this employer was cited under

Accidents investigated

May 6, 2009, San Martin. Employee's Hand Is Pulled by Conveyor Into Knives of Machine Inspection
Jul 24, 2006, San Martin. Employee's Fingertip Is Amputated by Running Auger 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 Nature Quality

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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