Pappas Family Farms, Inc. safety record at a glance
Pappas Family Farms, Inc. has been the subject of 14 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Jul 31, 2014 and Jul 10, 2025. 6 of them were complaint inspections. 7 of them produced citations, 16 in all: 7 serious. Inspectors proposed $114,240 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $105,115. The largest single penalty, $38,500, came from an inspection opened Jul 20, 2023 in Los Banos. That places the employer at #394 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties.
Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting. Worksites in Mendota, Los Banos, Firebaugh, Coalinga.
Every inspection, newest first
Click a date for the citations in that inspection.
| Opened | City | Why | Result | Proposed | Penalty | Closed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 2025 | Mendota | Planned | 2 citations 1 serious | $19,760 | $19,760 | open |
| Nov 20, 2023 | Mendota | Accident | 4 citations 1 serious | $25,470 | $25,470 | open |
| Jul 31, 2023 | Mendota | Complaint | no citations | 0 | 0 | Sep 14, 2023 |
| Jul 20, 2023 | Los Banos | Accident | 3 citations 2 serious | $38,500 | $38,500 | open |
| Mar 7, 2023 | Mendota | Complaint | 2 citations 1 serious | $8,000 | $8,000 | Sep 12, 2023 |
| May 11, 2022 | Firebaugh | Complaint | no citations | 0 | 0 | Jun 2, 2022 |
| Oct 13, 2020 | Mendota | Accident | no citations | 0 | 0 | May 20, 2021 |
| Jul 16, 2020 | Mendota | Referral | no citations | 0 | 0 | Oct 1, 2020 |
| Oct 30, 2018 | Coalinga | Accident | 2 citations | $12,200 | $3,750 | Oct 9, 2019 |
| Aug 30, 2016 | Mendota | Planned | 1 citation 1 serious | $3,375 | $2,700 | Oct 5, 2017 |
| Jul 21, 2015 | Mendota | Complaint | no citations | 0 | 0 | Oct 14, 2015 |
| Jul 15, 2015 | Mendota | Complaint | no citations | 0 | 0 | Oct 1, 2015 |
| Jul 13, 2015 | Mendota | Complaint | no citations | 0 | 0 | Sep 15, 2015 |
| Jul 31, 2014 | Mendota | Referral | 2 citations 1 serious | $6,935 | $6,935 | Feb 4, 2015 |
Also recorded as: Pappas Family Farms Inc; Pappas Family Farms; Pappas Family Farms Inc.
The rules this employer was cited under
- 8 CCR 3395, Heat illness prevention, outdoor: 5 citations, 3 serious, $41,385
- 8 CCR 3441, Agricultural equipment operation: 4 citations, 3 serious, $34,350
- 8 CCR 3210, Guardrails at elevated locations: 1 citation, 1 serious, $22,500
- 8 CCR 342, Reporting serious injuries and deaths: 1 citation, $3,000
- 8 CCR 3664, Industrial trucks, operator training: 1 citation, $1,060
- 8 CCR 3457, Field sanitation: 1 citation, $800
- 8 CCR 3577: 1 citation, $750
- 8 CCR 3650, Industrial trucks, operating rules: 1 citation, $635
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. 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 Pappas Family Farms, 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.