One of the two businesses where seven farmworkers were fatally shot last year in Half Moon Bay has paid more than $126,000 for workplace violations uncovered after the mass shooting, the U.S. Department of Labor confirmed to KQED.

California Terra Garden paid $84,000 in back wages and $42,500 in penalties assessed under federal protections covering migrant and seasonal agricultural workers. This is in addition to a separate $150,000 settlement paid by the business to the California Labor Commissioner’s Office, according to a spokesperson for the agency.

A Department of Labor investigation into the second site where the back-to-back shootings occurred, Concord Farms, is ongoing.

A team of investigators found California Terra Garden charged dozens of farmworkers to live in “deplorable” housing on-site and failed to notify them in writing about the terms of their employment as required, said Alberto Raymond, assistant district director at the agency’s San José office...

California Terra Garden made the full payment to the Department of Labor last summer. The agency has been working to track down 39 workers who are eligible for restitution over two years, according to Raymond.

Attempts to reach California Terra Garden representatives for comment were unsuccessful...

Deemed an extreme case of workplace violence, the murders on Jan. 23, 2023, at the two mushroom farms exposed very low wages and substandard housing conditions for workers.

The day after the shooting, Gov. Gavin Newsom told reporters that the farmworkers lived in “shipping containers” and earned only $9 an hour, far below California’s minimum wage. State and county officials vowed to investigate.

One year later, California workplace regulators accused the two farm employers of various safety and labor law violations...