The Growers Company, Inc. safety record at a glance
The Growers Company, Inc. has been the subject of 21 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Sep 12, 2000 and Apr 22, 2025. 10 of them were planned inspections. 13 of them produced citations, 30 in all: 3 serious. Inspectors proposed $67,930 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $38,165. The largest single penalty, $18,900, came from an inspection opened Dec 19, 2008 in Holtville. 2 worker deaths were investigated. That places the employer at #2,401 of 122,853 California employers in the database by penalties.
Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting. Worksites in Five Points, Soledad, Castroville, Salinas, Felicity, Hollister, Huron, Calexico.
Every inspection, newest first
Click a date for the citations in that inspection.
| Opened | City | Why | Result | Penalty | Closed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 2025 | Five Points | Programmed related | 2 citations | $1,100 $3,900 proposed | Dec 9, 2025 |
| Oct 25, 2022 | Five Points | Fatality or catastrophe | death no citations | $0 | Mar 23, 2023 |
| Jun 18, 2021 | Soledad | Referral | no citations | $0 | Aug 13, 2021 |
| Oct 1, 2020 | Castroville | Referral | 1 citation 1 serious | $5,400 $6,750 proposed | Apr 5, 2021 |
| Aug 21, 2020 | Salinas | Fatality or catastrophe | death 1 citation | $800 $9,000 proposed | Sep 19, 2022 |
| Jul 23, 2015 | Felicity | Complaint | 2 citations | $5,560 | Jan 31, 2017 |
| Jun 10, 2015 | Hollister | Accident | no citations | $0 | Aug 25, 2015 |
| Sep 5, 2014 | Salinas | Accident | no citations | $0 | Oct 20, 2014 |
| Apr 21, 2009 | Huron | Planned | no citations | $0 | Apr 21, 2009 |
| Jan 21, 2009 | Calexico | Planned | 1 citation | $450 $3,035 proposed | Sep 28, 2010 |
| Dec 19, 2008 | Holtville | Accident | 4 citations 1 serious | $18,900 $19,310 proposed | Aug 12, 2010 |
| Mar 27, 2007 | Holtville | Accident | 4 citations | $0 $2,125 proposed | Feb 22, 2008 |
| Feb 28, 2007 | Holtville | Accident | 4 citations | $600 $1,850 proposed | Dec 17, 2008 |
| Jan 10, 2007 | Calexico | Planned | 2 citations | $220 | Nov 26, 2008 |
| Nov 29, 2005 | Winterhaven | Planned | 3 citations | $1,650 $10,030 proposed | Dec 7, 2006 |
| Nov 29, 2005 | Winterhaven | Planned | 4 citations | $335 $3,000 proposed | Jun 23, 2008 |
| Sep 13, 2001 | Soledad | Planned | 1 citation 1 serious | $3,150 | Aug 1, 2007 |
| Jul 25, 2001 | Soledad | Planned | no citations | $0 | Oct 9, 2001 |
| Jun 13, 2001 | Salinas | Planned | no citations | $0 | Sep 27, 2001 |
| Jun 12, 2001 | Soledad | Planned | 1 citation | $0 | Jul 24, 2003 |
| Sep 12, 2000 | Salinas | Planned | no citations | $0 | Oct 9, 2000 |
Also recorded as: Growers Company; The Growers Company; Growers Company, Inc; The Growers Company, Inc; The Growers CO Inc; The Growers, CO.; The Growers CO; The Growers Company Incorporated; The Growers Company Inc.
The rules this employer was cited under
- 8 CCR 3203, Injury and Illness Prevention Program: 10 citations, 1 serious, $7,660
- 8 CCR 3457, Field sanitation: 4 citations, $1,500
- 8 CCR 3441, Agricultural equipment operation: 2 citations, 1 serious, $3,900
- 8 CCR 3439, First-Aid Kit: 2 citations, $150
- 8 CCR 14001: 2 citations
- 8 CCR 4075, Gears and Sprockets: 1 citation, 1 serious, $18,000
- 8 CCR 342, Reporting serious injuries and deaths: 1 citation, $5,000
- 8 CCR 3210, Guardrails at elevated locations: 1 citation, $450
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. 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.
Full explainer: how to read a Cal/OSHA record.
If you work, or worked, at The Growers 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 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.