Arden Group, Inc.: OSHA inspections and violations
Pacific Palisades, California · Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers (except Convenience Retailers) · NAICS 445110
4inspections
6citation items
$13,120current penalties
Jul 5, 2022last inspection
Arden Group, Inc. has 4 OSHA inspections on record in California, the first in 2020.
OSHA's last visit started on Jul 5, 2022 after an accident, in Rancho Mirage.
Across those inspections OSHA issued 6 citation items: 2 serious and 4 other-than-serious.
OSHA proposed $35,930 in penalties. After settlements and reviews the total is $13,120, down 63%.
For context, across all retail employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $1,750. Arden Group, Inc. averages $6,560 over 2 cited inspections in that time.
1 inspection on this page followed a fatal incident.
Arden Group, Inc. also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
California · latest 90 days of OSHA records
1,128employers cited
23 of them in the same industry
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Incident on May 24, 2020 (fatal): Employee with covid-19 infection dies
An employee worked as a meat cutter in the meat department of a grocery store. The employee had worked during the two weeks prior to the onset of the symptoms on March 21, 2020. The employee was tested for COVID-19 on March 24 and received the positive results on March 27. The employee was admitted to the hospital on March 20, was released to a nursing home facility on May 8, and then readmitted to the same hospital on May 19. The employee died at the hospital at 1:24 a.m. on May 24, 2020, due to complications related to COVID-19.
Citation and rule
Type
Proposed
Current
Issued
Status
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 3249(B)
Other-than-serious
$185
$185
Nov 25, 2020
Final
Citation 1, item 3
29 CFR 3999(B)
Other-than-serious
$375
$375
Nov 25, 2020
Final
Citation 2, item 1
29 CFR 3203(A)
Serious
$8,435
$6,750
Nov 25, 2020
Final
Citation 3, item 1
29 CFR 3203(A)(7)
Other-than-serious
$8,435
$935
Nov 25, 2020
Final
Inspection 344650593 OPENED FEB 24, 2020Closed
Accident · Partial · Safety · 132 employees at the site · Closed May 1, 2020
Incident on Nov 21, 2019: Employee sustains burns on elbow when splashed by hot soup
At 5:40 p.m. on November 21, 2019, an employee working as a batch maker for a grocery store was pouring hot soup into a container. Some of the soup splashed onto the employee. The employee sustained 2nd degree burns to her right elbow and was hospitalized.
No citations from this inspection.
Injury and illness logs
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2022, the Los Angeles site logged 56 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 123 workers: 45.1 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 4.0 for its industry. Those cases cost 688 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Gelson's Markets #4
Los Angeles · 2022
123
56
52
45.1
4.0
Gelson's Markets #7
Pacific Palisades · 2022
118
53
49
44.6
4.0
Gelson's Markets #22
Los Angeles · 2022
88
43
41
45.7
4.0
Gelson's Markets #28
Rancho Mirage · 2022
86
35
35
43.8
4.0
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
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