BLACKBURN FARMING CO, INC
43940 W NORTH AVE, FIREBAUGH, CA 93622
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Inspection records
Jun 9, 2015#340694348Jun 9, 2015Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Health#340694348$2751 viol.1 violation$275 in penalties
Inspection #340694348
Dates
- Opened
- Jun 9, 2015
- Closing Conference Date
- Jun 19, 2015
- Final Order
- Jul 22, 2015
- Closed
- Jul 8, 2015
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 15
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 1
- Violation Types
- 1 other-than-serious
- Initial Penalties
- $275
- Penalties on Record
- $275
- Site Address
- 43940 W. North Ave, Firebaugh, CA 93622
- Industry
- 115116 Farm Management Services
Complaint Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as a complaint inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data. OSHA can open complaint-driven inspections after receiving safety or health complaints from workers or their representatives.
Violations
Violation list (1 of 1 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 461(C) Permits to Operate | Other | 1 | 2 | $275 | $275 | - | Jul 22, 2015 |
Mar 28, 2010#312914476Mar 28, 2010FatalityAccident (A) · Partial scope, SafetyFatality#312914476$15,6004 viol.4 violations$15,600 in penalties
Inspection #312914476
Dates
- Opened
- Mar 28, 2010
- Closing Conference Date
- Mar 28, 2010
- Contested
- Sep 28, 2010
- Closed
- Jul 10, 2013
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 20
- Related Activity
- 1 accident
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 4
- Violation Types
- 1 serious, 3 other-than-serious
- Initial Penalties
- $20,000
- Penalties on Record
- $15,600
- Site Address
- Sec 6 N Of North Ave, Firebaugh, CA 93622
- Industry
- 111336
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.
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.
Employee is killed when clothes catch in auger
Enforcement Outcome
Citation contest activity appears on Sep 28, 2010. Final orders are recorded through Aug 20, 2012. Penalty changes shown on this page reflect the latest amounts published in OSHA's enforcement data.
Violations
Violation list (4 of 4 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 3203 Injury and Illness Prevention Program OSHA citation code: 3203 A04 B | Other | 1 | 2 | $515 | $515 | Sep 10, 2010 | - | - |
| 01002 | 3203 Injury and Illness Prevention Program OSHA citation code: 3203 B | Other | 1 | 2 | $135 | $135 | Sep 10, 2010 | - | - |
| 02001 | 3441 Operation of Agricultural Equipment OSHA citation code: 3441 A01 | Other | 1 | 2 | $4,950 | $550 | Sep 10, 2010 | Sep 28, 2010 | Aug 20, 2012 |
| 03001 | 3441 Operation of Agricultural Equipment OSHA citation code: 3441 A02 C | Serious | 1 | 2 | $14,400 | $14,400 | Sep 10, 2010 | Sep 28, 2010 | Aug 20, 2012 |
Apr 4, 2002#125730705Apr 4, 2002Accident (A) · Partial scope, Safety#125730705$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #125730705
Dates
- Opened
- Apr 4, 2002
- Closing Conference Date
- Apr 9, 2002
- Closed
- Dec 12, 2002
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 20
- Related Activity
- 1 accident
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 43940 W North Ave, Firebaugh, CA 93622
- Industry
- Not classified in OSHA's inspection record.
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.
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.
Employee has back and shoulder injuries after atv rollover
Penalty amounts may differ from final amounts after settlement or judicial review. How to read these records
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.
3 inspections, 2002 to 2015. Each row is one inspection; point at or tap a row for its dates and totals.
Source: DOL OSHA enforcement data (inspections and violations), linked via activity_nr (exact government key).
Penalty changes: Amounts shown reflect what OSHA's enforcement record publishes. The reason for any change is not stated unless OSHA's record explicitly says so.
Short cases: When a case closed soon after it opened, the closed marker is drawn slightly to the right so both markers stay visible. Each row's card shows the exact dates.