Sunwest Milling Company, Inc. safety record at a glance
Sunwest Milling Company, Inc. has been the subject of 5 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Apr 18, 2001 and Mar 12, 2025. 3 of them were accident inspections. All of them produced citations, 10 in all: 1 serious. Inspectors proposed $21,610 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $13,790. The largest single penalty, $11,550, came from an inspection opened Aug 21, 2019 in Biggs. That places the employer at #11,293 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties.
Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Manufacturing. Worksites in Biggs.
Every inspection, newest first
Click a date for the citations in that inspection.
| Opened | City | Why | Result | Proposed | Penalty | Closed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 2025 | Biggs | Accident | 1 citation | $700 | $700 | Jul 22, 2025 |
| Dec 13, 2023 | Biggs | Complaint | 1 citation | $390 | $390 | Jan 29, 2024 |
| Aug 21, 2019 | Biggs | Unprogrammed related | 3 citations 1 serious | $18,745 | $11,550 | Mar 26, 2020 |
| Sep 5, 2008 | Biggs | Accident | 3 citations | $1,375 | $750 | Jul 13, 2010 |
| Apr 18, 2001 | Biggs | Accident | 2 citations | $400 | $400 | Jul 31, 2001 |
Also recorded as: Sunwest Milling Inc.; Sunwest Milling, Inc.
The rules this employer was cited under
- 8 CCR 3203, Injury and Illness Prevention Program: 2 citations, $640
- 8 CCR 4075: 1 citation, 1 serious, $10,800
- 8 CCR 4000: 1 citation, $750
- 8 CCR 3314, Lockout and cleaning of machinery: 1 citation, $700
- 8 CCR 5042: 1 citation, $250
- 8 CCR 4999: 1 citation, $250
- 8 CCR 3241, Live loads: 1 citation, $200
- 8 CCR 3664, Industrial trucks, operator training: 1 citation, $200
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 Sunwest Milling Company, Inc.
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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.