Rizo Lopez Foods, Inc. safety record at a glance
Rizo Lopez Foods, Inc. has been the subject of 12 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Dec 17, 2008 and Apr 15, 2025. 4 of them were planned inspections. 8 of them produced citations, 28 in all: 7 serious. Inspectors proposed $116,850 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $69,570. The largest single penalty, $29,600, came from an inspection opened Jul 22, 2016 in Modesto. That places the employer at #853 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties. It also appears in 1 federal wage and hour case.
Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Manufacturing. Worksites in Modesto, Riverbank.
Every inspection, newest first
Click a date for the citations in that inspection.
| Opened | City | Why | Result | Proposed | Penalty | Closed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 2025 | Modesto | Planned | no inspection made | 0 | 0 | Aug 13, 2025 |
| Oct 9, 2019 | Modesto | Accident | 1 citation | $3,825 | $3,000 | May 21, 2020 |
| May 2, 2019 | Modesto | Accident | 1 citation 1 serious | $22,500 | $14,400 | Feb 12, 2020 |
| Apr 19, 2019 | Modesto | Complaint | no citations | 0 | 0 | Oct 16, 2019 |
| Mar 20, 2019 | Modesto | Planned | 10 citations 2 serious | $13,400 | $7,095 | Aug 2, 2019 |
| May 10, 2017 | Modesto | Follow-up | no citations | 0 | 0 | May 30, 2017 |
| Jul 22, 2016 | Modesto | Accident | 7 citations 3 serious | $45,600 | $29,600 | Oct 12, 2016 |
| Mar 22, 2016 | Modesto | Complaint | 1 citation | $900 | $900 | May 17, 2016 |
| Oct 10, 2013 | Modesto | Programmed related | 3 citations | $3,500 | $1,925 | Mar 9, 2015 |
| Mar 27, 2012 | Riverbank | Accident | 2 citations 1 serious | $23,000 | $11,750 | Dec 31, 2013 |
| Mar 27, 2012 | Riverbank | Planned | 3 citations | $4,125 | $900 | Oct 8, 2013 |
| Dec 17, 2008 | Riverbank | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Dec 18, 2008 |
Also recorded as: Rizo-Lopez Foods Inc.; Rizo-Lopez Foods, Inc. dba Don Francisco Cheese; Rizo Lopez Foods Inc; Rizo Lopez Foods; Rizo-Lopez Foods, Inc.
The rules this employer was cited under
- 8 CCR 3314, Lockout and cleaning of machinery: 9 citations, 3 serious, $20,175
- 8 CCR 4002, Machine guarding, moving parts: 2 citations, 2 serious, $32,400
- 8 CCR 2340.17: 2 citations, 1 serious, $4,685
- 8 CCR 2473.1: 2 citations, $665
- 8 CCR 3203, Injury and Illness Prevention Program: 2 citations, $400
- 8 CCR 4650: 2 citations, $240
- 8 CCR 342, Reporting serious injuries and deaths: 1 citation, $5,000
- 8 CCR 4186: 1 citation, $3,000
Accidents investigated
Local pages: Modesto employment lawyer.
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 Rizo Lopez Foods, 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.