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Signature Fruit CO Cal/OSHA Inspections and Citations

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Signature Fruit CO: 7 inspections, 27 citations and $25,980 in penalties, latest opened Aug 16, 2006.

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.

Signature Fruit CO safety record at a glance

Signature Fruit CO has been the subject of 7 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between May 13, 2003 and Aug 16, 2006. 6 of them were accident inspections. 3 of them produced citations, 27 in all: 18 serious. Inspectors proposed $32,350 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $25,980. The largest single penalty, $22,230, came from an inspection opened Aug 15, 2006 in Modesto. That places the employer at #4,432 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties.

Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Manufacturing. Worksites in Modesto.

Every inspection, newest first

Click a date for the citations in that inspection.

OpenedCityWhyResultProposedPenaltyClosed
Aug 16, 2006ModestoAccident1 citation00Dec 8, 2006
Aug 15, 2006ModestoPlanned24 citations 16 serious$22,230$22,230Apr 4, 2007
Oct 13, 2005ModestoAccident2 citations 2 serious$10,120$3,750Jul 20, 2007
Oct 13, 2005ModestoAccidentno citations00Aug 28, 2006
Jan 5, 2004ModestoAccidentno citations00Jan 14, 2004
Jan 5, 2004ModestoAccidentno citations00Jan 21, 2004
May 13, 2003ModestoAccidentno citations00May 27, 2003

Also recorded as: Signature Fruit Company, LLC.

The rules this employer was cited under

Accidents investigated

Aug 25, 2005, Modesto. Employee Amputates Finger Pad When Conveyor Advances Inspection
Aug 9, 2005, Modesto. Employee Amputates Fingers While Un-Jamming Cooker Machine 1 hospitalized Inspection
Aug 6, 2003, Modesto. Fall From Platform Injures Employee 1 hospitalized Inspection
Jul 18, 2003, Modesto. Employee's fingers caught between belt and chute 1 hospitalized Inspection
Apr 15, 2003, Modesto. Employee falls and breaks arm 1 hospitalized Inspection

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 Signature Fruit CO

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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