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Vann Brothers Cal/OSHA Inspections and Citations

Benjamin Eghbali, Esq.Legal notes by Benjamin Eghbali, Esq.,

Vann Brothers: 5 inspections, 3 citations and $4,350 in penalties, latest opened Sep 12, 2018.

Every Cal/OSHA and federal OSHA inspection of a California workplace opened since 2000: 238,466 inspections of 122,854 employers, 447,188 citations, $586,238,760 in penalties, 5,717 deaths investigated.

Vann Brothers safety record at a glance

Vann Brothers has been the subject of 5 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Jan 9, 2002 and Sep 12, 2018. 4 of them were accident inspections. 2 of them produced citations, 3 in all: 0 serious. Inspectors proposed $6,350 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $4,350. The largest single penalty, $3,000, came from an inspection opened Sep 12, 2018 in Williams. That places the employer at #27,440 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties.

Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting; Construction. Worksites in Williams, Arbuckle.

Every inspection, newest first

Click a date for the citations in that inspection.

OpenedCityWhyResultProposedPenaltyClosed
Sep 12, 2018WilliamsAccident1 citation$5,000$3,000Jun 3, 2019
May 9, 2018WilliamsAccidentno citations00Aug 23, 2018
Aug 9, 2017WilliamsAccidentno citations00Oct 5, 2017
Sep 3, 2015ArbuckleUnprogrammed relatedno citations00Jan 26, 2016
Jan 9, 2002WilliamsAccident2 citations$1,350$1,350Apr 12, 2002

Also recorded as: Vann Brothers LP.

The rules this employer was cited under

Accidents investigated

Jul 30, 2018, Williams. Employee is run over by Kubota ATV and incurs liver injuries 1 hospitalized Inspection
May 3, 2018, Williams. Employee, struck by metal door, incurs head/face injuries 1 hospitalized Inspection
Jul 10, 2017, Williams. Employee falls off ATV and sustains fractured ribs 1 hospitalized Inspection
Jan 7, 2002, Williams. Employee injured in fall from ladder 1 hospitalized Inspection

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 Vann Brothers

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.

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