This penalty came on top of $13,050 following a forklift accident earlier in the year, giving Blue Apron the most OSHA violations in the fast-growing, $5 billion meal-kit startup industry, and among the most in perishable prepared-food manufacturing in California.

While company security and a Richmond police officer on patrol monitored threats outside the warehouse, inside, Blue Apron management was meeting with representatives from California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health at the conclusion of a two-week inspection by the agency that would result in nine violations and proposed penalties totaling $11,695 for unsafe conditions that put workers at risk for fractured bones, chemical burns, and more. But at Blue Apron, the day was just getting started. Police apprehended the man, who did not have a gun, later that morning. Around 8:30, en route to work, the supervisor called the police. In two messages, he named three people specifically who he wanted to put bullets into when he got there. He also said he planned to bring a gun to the warehouse and shoot his manager, as well as other people at the facility. In it, he said he planned to quit his job at Blue Apron later that day. The supervisor didn't pick up the phone that morning, so he left a message.

August 26, 2015, was, by all accounts, a stressful day at Blue Apron’s facility in Richmond, California.Īs the sun rose over what would be an unusually warm Wednesday, a 21-year-old employee made a phone call to a supervisor at the $2 billion food startup's Bay Area fulfillment center, where tens of thousands of meal kits are packed into cardboard containers and shipped across the continental United States.

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