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Salyer American Fresh Foods Cal/OSHA Inspections and Citations

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Salyer American Fresh Foods: 12 inspections, 6 citations and $5,495 in penalties, latest opened Jul 8, 2008.

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.

Salyer American Fresh Foods safety record at a glance

Salyer American Fresh Foods has been the subject of 12 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Aug 1, 2000 and Jul 8, 2008. 10 of them were planned inspections. 5 of them produced citations, 6 in all: 1 serious. Inspectors proposed $5,495 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $5,495. The largest single penalty, $3,375, came from an inspection opened Jul 8, 2008 in Soledad. That places the employer at #23,279 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties.

Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting. Worksites in Soledad, Salinas.

Every inspection, newest first

Click a date for the citations in that inspection.

OpenedCityWhyResultProposedPenaltyClosed
Jul 8, 2008SoledadPlanned1 citation 1 serious$3,375$3,375Feb 5, 2019
Jun 15, 2007SalinasPlannedno citations00Jun 15, 2007
Aug 24, 2006SalinasPlannedno citations00Oct 2, 2006
Jun 14, 2006SalinasPlanned1 citation$485$485Jul 31, 2007
Aug 17, 2004SalinasComplaintno citations00Sep 14, 2004
Jul 24, 2003SalinasPlanned1 citation$560$560Aug 11, 2003
Sep 13, 2001SalinasPlannedno citations00Oct 27, 2001
Sep 13, 2001SalinasPlannedno citations00Oct 23, 2001
Aug 29, 2001SalinasPlanned2 citations$750$750Apr 24, 2002
Aug 29, 2001SalinasPlannedno citations00Oct 18, 2001
May 16, 2001SalinasPlanned1 citation$325$325Oct 24, 2001
Aug 1, 2000SalinasAccidentno inspection made00Oct 9, 2000

Also recorded as: Salyer American Fresh Foods, Inc.

The rules this employer was cited under

Local pages: Salinas 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 Salyer American Fresh Foods

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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