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Company: Zappala Farms
Penalty: $17,320
Year: 2003
Date: November 4, 2003
Offense Group: safety-related offenses
Primary Offense: workplace safety or health violation
Secondary Offense: Fair Labor Standards Act
Violation Description: Zappala Farms, an onion farm located in Cato, N.Y., agreed to pay civil money penalties totaling $17,320 to the U.S. Department of Labor to resolve a case that began with a van accident in Upstate New York on July 5, 1995 that claimed the lives of three migrant farm workers and seriously injured another fourteen. At the time of the accident, an immediate investigation by the department's Wage and Hour Division revealed violations of the Migrant Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (MSPA) by Zappala Farms, including failure to provide safe transport vehicles for the workers, failure to confirm a farm labor contractor's registration to transport migrant farm workers, and failure to ensure that a facility housing migrant workers complied with applicable federal standards.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Labor Department Wage and Hour Division
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: New York
Facility City: Cato
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