Taylor Farms Failed to File Federal Injury Logs for Years

Taylor Farms, the largest salad producer in North America, failed to submit federally required workplace injury logs for at least 17 facilities between 2021 and 2025. Federal records show only five to seven of those facilities filed the reports on time during that period. These reporting gaps occurred at sites where workers suffered serious or fatal injuries, including a plant in Swedesboro, New Jersey, where a worker died last year, and a facility in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, where an ammonia leak hospitalized 13 workers.

Since 2021, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and state regulators have issued nearly $1.8 million in citations to the company for training failures and machine hazards. The United States Department of Labor also issued a $1 million fine for willful safety violations at one of the company's plants.

Taylor Farms acknowledged the gaps in its electronic submission of 300A log summary forms, stating the issues have been addressed through investments in new safety reporting software. Separately, the company is facing scrutiny over a cyclospora outbreak linked to its lettuce from Mexico, which has sickened thousands and killed two people.