The Garlic Company, LLC safety record at a glance
The Garlic Company, LLC has been the subject of 5 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Oct 13, 2005 and Nov 4, 2025. 3 of them were unprogrammed related inspections. 4 of them produced citations, 12 in all: 6 serious. Inspectors proposed $52,995 in penalties, and that total stands. The largest single penalty, $26,400, came from an inspection opened Apr 17, 2025 in Shafter. That places the employer at #1,342 of 122,853 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 Shafter, Bakersfield.
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| Opened | City | Why | Result | Penalty | Closed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 4, 2025 | Shafter | Unprogrammed related | 3 citations 2 serious | $14,135 | Apr 13, 2026 |
| May 21, 2025 | Shafter | Unprogrammed related | 3 citations 2 serious | $11,400 | Oct 15, 2025 |
| Apr 17, 2025 | Shafter | Unprogrammed related | 4 citations 2 serious | $26,400 | Sep 26, 2025 |
| Feb 15, 2024 | Shafter | Accident | 2 citations | $1,060 | May 23, 2024 |
| Oct 13, 2005 | Bakersfield | Accident | no citations | $0 | Nov 29, 2005 |
Also recorded as: The Garlic Company.
The rules this employer was cited under
- 8 CCR 3314, Lockout and cleaning of machinery: 4 citations, 2 serious, $13,800
- 8 CCR 3203, Injury and Illness Prevention Program: 3 citations, 1 serious, $7,985
- 8 CCR 4002, Machine guarding, moving parts: 1 citation, 1 serious, $18,000
- 8 CCR 4001, Machine Power Control: 1 citation, 1 serious, $6,750
- 8 CCR 3942, Type of Guarding Required: 1 citation, 1 serious, $5,400
- 8 CCR 3382, Eye and Face Protection: 1 citation, $850
- 8 CCR 6151, Portable fire extinguishers: 1 citation, $210
Local pages: Bakersfield 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. Penalty is the current figure after any appeal or settlement; where it was reduced, the amount the inspector first proposed is shown under it. "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 The Garlic Company, LLC
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor OSHA enforcement data, California inspections. Record last checked Nov 4, 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.