Tropicale Foods, LLC safety record at a glance
Tropicale Foods, LLC has been the subject of 6 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Jul 29, 2008 and Feb 11, 2025. 3 of them were accident inspections. All of them produced citations, 13 in all: 5 serious. Inspectors proposed $44,680 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $17,585. The largest single penalty, $5,600, came from an inspection opened Jul 29, 2008 in Chino. That places the employer at #8,438 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties. The same employer has 1 WARN layoff notice on file with the EDD. It also appears in 1 federal wage and hour case.
Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Manufacturing. Worksites in Ontario, Modesto, Chino.
Every inspection, newest first
Click a date for the citations in that inspection.
| Opened | City | Why | Result | Proposed | Penalty | Closed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 11, 2025 | Ontario | Complaint | 2 citations | $1,200 | $1,200 | Aug 19, 2025 |
| Apr 18, 2024 | Modesto | Accident | 1 citation 1 serious | $6,750 | $4,050 | Sep 30, 2024 |
| Oct 4, 2023 | Ontario | Accident | 1 citation 1 serious | $5,400 | $750 | Jul 21, 2025 |
| Dec 8, 2017 | Ontario | Accident | 2 citations 1 serious | $8,000 | $5,185 | Jul 25, 2018 |
| Oct 31, 2016 | Ontario | Unprogrammed related | 1 citation | $800 | $800 | Apr 27, 2017 |
| Jul 29, 2008 | Chino | Planned | 6 citations 2 serious | $22,530 | $5,600 | Jan 27, 2010 |
Also recorded as: Tropicale Foods Inc; Tropicale Foods, Inc.
The rules this employer was cited under
- 8 CCR 3314, Lockout and cleaning of machinery: 6 citations, 3 serious, $12,985
- 8 CCR 5185: 1 citation, 1 serious, $2,250
- 8 CCR 4002, Machine guarding, moving parts: 1 citation, $800
- 8 CCR 3203, Injury and Illness Prevention Program: 1 citation, $600
- 8 CCR 3396, Heat illness prevention, indoor: 1 citation, $600
- 8 CCR 4050: 1 citation, 1 serious, $225
- 8 CCR 2340.12: 1 citation, $125
- 8 CCR 2340.22: 1 citation
Accidents investigated
Local pages: Ontario employment lawyer, 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 Tropicale Foods, LLC
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.