Spreckels Sugar Company, Inc. safety record at a glance
Spreckels Sugar Company, Inc. has been the subject of 7 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Apr 22, 2005 and Aug 14, 2025. 7 of them were accident inspections. All of them produced citations, 27 in all: 11 serious, 1 repeat. Inspectors proposed $247,120 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $151,885. The largest single penalty, $41,295, came from an inspection opened Apr 12, 2024 in Brawley. That places the employer at #189 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties. The same employer has 1 WARN layoff notice on file with the EDD.
Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting; Manufacturing. Worksites in Brawley, Imperial.
Every inspection, newest first
Click a date for the citations in that inspection.
| Opened | City | Why | Result | Proposed | Penalty | Closed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 2025 | Brawley | Accident | 2 citations 2 serious | $36,000 | $36,000 | open |
| Apr 12, 2024 | Brawley | Accident | 5 citations 3 serious | $73,295 | $41,295 | Nov 26, 2024 |
| Mar 14, 2022 | Imperial | Accident | 4 citations 2 serious | $56,250 | $36,670 | Dec 4, 2023 |
| Sep 21, 2012 | Brawley | Accident | 5 citations 1 serious 1 repeat | $17,215 | $17,215 | May 19, 2016 |
| Apr 27, 2011 | Brawley | Accident | 3 citations 2 serious | $22,150 | $9,775 | Feb 15, 2012 |
| Aug 5, 2009 | Brawley | Accident | 5 citations 1 serious | $23,555 | $9,805 | May 11, 2011 |
| Apr 22, 2005 | Brawley | Accident | 3 citations | $18,655 | $1,125 | Jul 14, 2008 |
Also recorded as: Spreckels Sugar Company, Inc; Spreckels Sugar CO.
The rules this employer was cited under
- 8 CCR 3314, Lockout and cleaning of machinery: 4 citations, 1 serious, $19,420
- 8 CCR 3203, Injury and Illness Prevention Program: 4 citations, 1 serious, $19,205
- 8 CCR 342, Reporting serious injuries and deaths: 3 citations, $12,500
- 8 CCR 5157, Confined spaces: 3 citations, 1 serious, $6,365
- 8 CCR 2940.1: 1 citation, 1 serious, $22,500
- 8 CCR 2340.2: 1 citation, 1 serious, $18,000
- 8 CCR 3329, Machinery, operating procedures: 1 citation, 1 serious, $18,000
- 8 CCR 2940: 1 citation, 1 serious, $9,000
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.
Full explainer: how to read a Cal/OSHA record.
If you work, or worked, at Spreckels Sugar Company, 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.