Inspection record, Watsonville

Oasis Berry Farms Inc. Cal/OSHA Inspection, Aug 16, 2011

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

Accident inspection in Watsonville: 4 citations, $8,700. One of 4 inspections on this employer's record.

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.

What happened in this inspection

Cal/OSHA opened an accident inspection of Oasis Berry Farms Inc. at 705 Casserly Rd., Watsonville (Santa Cruz County) on Aug 16, 2011. It was a partial inspection focused on safety hazards. 300 employees were recorded at the site. Inspectors issued 4 citations (2 serious) and proposed $8,700 in penalties; the current total is $8,700. The case closed on Jan 21, 2012. The employer has 3 other inspections on its California record.

Citations

Each citation names the rule, its classification and the penalty as proposed and as it stands now.

Citation 01001: 8 CCR 4001 General
Issued Dec 21, 2011. Proposed $300, current $300. 1 workers exposed. Abatement due Dec 26, 2011, completed. Read the rule.
Citation 01002: 8 CCR 4002 A, Machine guarding, moving parts General
Issued Dec 21, 2011. Proposed $300, current $300. 1 workers exposed. Abatement due Jan 23, 2012, completed. Read the rule.
Citation 02001: 8 CCR 3441 A02 C, Agricultural equipment operation Serious
Issued Dec 11, 2011. Proposed $2,700, current $2,700. 1 workers exposed. Abatement due Dec 15, 2011, completed. Read the rule.
Citation 03001: 8 CCR 4086 Serious
Issued Dec 21, 2011. Proposed $5,400, current $5,400. 1 workers exposed. Abatement due Dec 26, 2011, completed. Read the rule.

The accident

Aug 3, 2011. Employee's Arm Is Fractured by Machine
Keywords: fracture,glove,machine operator,caught by,arm 1 hospitalized

Your rights

If you worked at this site, the inspection file is a public record once the case closes; request it from the Cal/OSHA district office with activity number 315364729. A worker who reported the hazard, the injury or the inspection and was then fired, demoted or cut has a retaliation claim under Labor Code 6310, one year to file with the Labor Commissioner and longer to sue. Injuries themselves go through workers' compensation. Free, confidential review: (800) 371-3088.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor OSHA enforcement data, inspection 315364729, checked Nov 1, 2026. How to read a record. 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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