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ARBORICULTURAL SPECIALTIES, INC.
$60,580
penalties
5
viol.
2
insp.

ARBORICULTURAL SPECIALTIES, INC.

2227 STUART STREET, BERKELEY, CA 94705NAICS 561730 Landscaping Services

Inspections
2
Jan 2023 to Jul 2024 · 2 safety, 0 health
Violations
5
across 2 inspections
Penalties on record
$60,580
latest amounts in DOL records
By classification
Serious 4Willful 0Repeat 0Other 1

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Inspection records

Jul 17, 2024FatalityFatality/Catastrophe (M) · Partial scope, Safety#347624124$56,4753 viol.

Inspection #347624124

Dates

Opened
Jul 17, 2024
Closing Conference Date
Jan 15, 2025
Final Order
Feb 8, 2025
Closed
Jul 14, 2025

Inspection

Advance Notice
No
Owner Type
Private
Union Status
No
Number of Employees
95
Related Activity
1 accident

Violations and Penalties

Total Violations
3
Violation Types
3 serious
Initial Penalties
$56,475
Penalties on Record
$56,475
Site Address
2227 Stuart Street, Berkeley, CA 94705
Industry
561730 Landscaping Services

Fatality/Catastrophe Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as a fatality/catastrophe inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data.

Incident Investigation Summaries

Incident investigation summaries linked to this inspection through OSHA's accident and injury enforcement data. These summaries describe the reported incident. The enforcement outcome for the linked inspection is in the inspection details above.

FatalityJul 17, 2024

Employee is killed in fall from tree

Event: Fall (From Elevation)

Violations

Violation list (3 of 3 shown)
CitationStandardTypeInstancesExposedInitialCurrentAbatementContestFinal Order
010013421(M)
General
Serious15$14,625$14,625Jan 29, 2025-Feb 8, 2025
020013427(B)(7)
Safe Work Procedures
Serious11$17,550$17,550-Feb 8, 2025
030013427(A)(2)
Safe Work Procedures
Serious11$24,300$24,300-Feb 8, 2025
Jan 19, 2023Accident (A) · Partial scope, Safety#346446180$4,1052 viol.

Inspection #346446180

Dates

Opened
Jan 19, 2023
Closing Conference Date
May 9, 2023
Contested
Jul 5, 2023
Final Order
Oct 7, 2025
Closed
May 18, 2026

Inspection

Advance Notice
No
Owner Type
Private
Union Status
No
Number of Employees
97
Related Activity
1 accident

Violations and Penalties

Total Violations
2
Violation Types
1 serious, 1 other-than-serious
Initial Penalties
$15,230
Penalties on Record
$4,105
Site Address
820 The Alameda, Berkeley, CA 94707
Industry
561730 Landscaping Services

Accident Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as an accident inspection in the U.S. Department of Labor OSHA enforcement data. Employers must report work-related fatalities within 8 hours, and work-related inpatient hospitalizations, amputations, or losses of an eye within 24 hours. An accident-related inspection does not by itself determine fault.

Violations

Violation list (2 of 2 shown)
CitationStandardTypeInstancesExposedInitialCurrentAbatementContestFinal Order
010013427(B)(1)
Safe Work Procedures
Other15$605$605Jun 14, 2023Jul 5, 2023Oct 7, 2025
020013427(B)(6)
Safe Work Procedures
Serious11$14,625$3,500May 22, 2023Jul 5, 2023Oct 7, 2025
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About these records

A company page groups inspections with the same normalized employer name, city and state; it is not a legal-entity identifier (how pages are grouped).

This page displays public OSHA enforcement data. Status text follows the DOL inspection record first and may include citation-level context when the inspection feed and citation records are out of sync. Penalty amounts shown reflect the latest penalty amounts on record in the DOL database and may differ from initial assessments or final amounts. This is not an official OSHA resource.

OSHA's public enforcement data does not publish a "guilty" or "not guilty" field for inspections. The closest outcome fields available are the citation counts, penalty amounts, contest dates, final-order dates, and the inspection close date shown on this page. How to interpret these status fields. How initial and current penalties are recorded.

OSHA may publish multiple citation rows in the same inspection with the same standard and penalty fields. Separate rows can still differ in OSHA metadata such as citation identifier, recorded instance count, exposed workers, or gravity value. Contest and Final Order columns show citation-level dates from OSHA's enforcement record. A dash means OSHA's record does not currently show that activity for the citation.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor OSHA incident investigation data (`osha_accident` + `osha_accident_injury`). Linked via `rel_insp_nr` to the inspection activity number (exact government key). Injury, body part, source and event values are OSHA's own codes. OSHA states that these fields are not coded according to the requirements under the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System (OIICS). Only the values present in the OSHA record are listed; an incident with no value that resolves in OSHA's code table shows "Injury details not recorded". Where a record covers several people, each field lists every value recorded across them.

Understanding These Penalties

The maximum penalty for a serious violation in 2025 is $16,550 per violation. For willful violations, the range is $11,823 to $165,514. The current penalty column shows the latest amount on record in OSHA's database for each citation. When the current penalty differs from the initial penalty, OSHA's records show that the amount changed during the enforcement process, but this page does not determine the specific reason for each change. Penalty amounts are set by OSHA and adjusted annually for inflation.

Standards cited

3421(M)General1 citation · $14,625
3427(A)(2)Safe Work Procedures1 citation · $24,300
3427(B)(1)Safe Work Procedures1 citation · $605

Industry comparison

Violations per inspection
This employer2.5
Industry average1.6
Penalties per inspection
This employer$30,290
Industry average$1,886

Administrative and Support Services, 52,360 employers with OSHA inspections. Arithmetic from DOL records.

BLS 2024 survey: landscaping services reported 3.0 injuries and illnesses per 100 full-time workers (total recordable cases, national, private industry; relative standard error 5.9%; NAICS 56173 level). This is an industry-wide average from a federal survey, not a measurement of this establishment. Source

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