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Commodity Forwarders: OSHA inspections and violations

Los Angeles, California · Coastal and Great Lakes Freight Transportation · NAICS 483113

3inspections
12citation items
$12,690current penalties
Sep 9, 2020last inspection

OSHA has inspected Commodity Forwarders 3 times in California since 2010.

The latest one began on Sep 9, 2020 after a fatality or catastrophe, in Los Angeles.

Those inspections ended with 12 citation items: 1 serious and 11 other-than-serious.

Penalties were first proposed at $17,425 and now stand at $12,690, 27% lower after settlements or reviews.

How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for transportation and warehousing employers since 2015 is $2,408, and Commodity Forwarders averages $5,782 (2 cited inspections).

1 inspection on this page followed a fatal incident.

Commodity Forwarders also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.

Commodity Forwarders: OSHA citation items per year, 2010 to 2020
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 344918248 OPENED SEP 9, 2020Closed

Fatality or catastrophe · Partial · Health · 210 employees at the site · Closed Jul 14, 2022

11105 S. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045 · Specialized Freight (except Used Goods) Trucking, Local · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Incident on Sep 6, 2020 (fatal): Employee with covid-19 infection dies

Employee # 1 worked during the two weeks prior to the onset of the symptoms on August 20, 2020. Employee # 1 contracted COVID-19 and was hospitalized on August 28, 2020. At 2:30 p.m. on September 6, 2020, Employee #1 died. His Employer did not report the hospitalization to the state OSHA and reported the fatality on September 8, 2020. The employer report shows three COVID-19 cases at the site during the previous 14 days of Employee # 1's onset of symptoms; two cases in a different shift and one case in the same shift as Employee # 1. According to the employer contact tracing, Employee # 1 was not identified as a close contact to any of the three cases.

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 342(A)
Other-than-serious$5,000$5,000Jun 18, 2021Final
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 3203(A)(7)
Other-than-serious$750$600Jun 18, 2021Final
Citation 1, item 3
29 CFR 3251
Other-than-serious$750$600Jun 18, 2021Final
Citation 1, item 4
29 CFR 3314(D)
Other-than-serious$375$300Jun 18, 2021Final
Citation 1, item 5
29 CFR 3382(A)
Other-than-serious$420$335Jun 18, 2021Final
Citation 1, item 6
29 CFR 3650(T)(33)
Other-than-serious$375$300Jun 18, 2021Final
Citation 1, item 7
29 CFR 5162(D)
Other-than-serious$750$600Jun 18, 2021Final
Citation 2, item 1
29 CFR 3203(A)
Serious$6,750$2,700Jun 18, 2021Final

Inspection 344670070 OPENED MAR 3, 2020Closed

Complaint · Partial · Safety · 500 employees at the site · Closed Sep 14, 2020

240 Lawrence Avenue Suite B, South San Francisco, CA 94080 · General Warehousing and Storage · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 3650(B)(4)
Other-than-serious$565$565Aug 10, 2020Final
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 3650(T)(7)
Other-than-serious$565$565Aug 10, 2020Final

Inspection 300875465 OPENED NOV 29, 2010Closed

Unprogrammed related · Partial · Safety · 175 employees at the site · Closed Apr 30, 2011

11101 S. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045 · Coastal and Great Lakes Freight Transportation · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1 Other-than-serious$375$375Mar 17, 2011Closed
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 3203 A
Other-than-serious$750$750Mar 17, 2011Closed

Injury and illness logs

From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.

In 2023, the Los Angeles site logged 37 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 244 workers: 14.8 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 0.0 for its industry. Those cases cost 701 days away from work.

Site and yearWorkersCasesDays-away casesRateIndustry median
Commodity Forwarders Inc. (LAX-5814)
Los Angeles · 2023
244 371414.80.0
Commodity Forwarders Inc. (SFO-5816)
South San Francisco · 2023
24 000.00.0
Cfi-Lax
Los Angeles · 2020
259 342113.02.6

The rules behind these citations

Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.

29 CFR 1430.40

Other coastal and great lakes freight transportation employers in California

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