American Automated Engineering safety record at a glance
American Automated Engineering has been the subject of 4 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Jun 28, 2018 and Oct 8, 2025. 3 of them were accident inspections. 3 of them produced citations, 7 in all: 3 serious. Inspectors proposed $20,425 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $18,065. The largest single penalty, $14,990, came from an inspection opened Jun 28, 2018 in Huntington Beach. That places the employer at #7,980 of 122,853 California employers in the database by penalties.
Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Manufacturing. Worksites in Huntington Beach.
Every inspection, newest first
Click a date for the citations in that inspection.
| Opened | City | Why | Result | Penalty | Closed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 2025 | Huntington Beach | Complaint | 1 citation 1 serious | $2,700 $5,060 proposed | Jul 6, 2026 |
| Jul 30, 2018 | Huntington Beach | Accident | 1 citation | $375 | Aug 29, 2018 |
| Jul 30, 2018 | Huntington Beach | Accident | no inspection made | $0 | Jul 30, 2018 |
| Jun 28, 2018 | Huntington Beach | Accident | 5 citations 2 serious | $14,990 | Oct 15, 2018 |
Also recorded as: American Automated Engineering, Inc.; American Automated Engineering Inc.
The rules this employer was cited under
- 8 CCR 3384, Hand Protection: 1 citation, 1 serious, $8,435
- 8 CCR 4310, Band Knives and Band Saws: 1 citation, 1 serious, $5,060
- 8 CCR 4002, Machine guarding, moving parts: 1 citation, 1 serious, $2,700
- 8 CCR 3578, Permissible Wheel Exposure for Periphery Grinding: 1 citation, $700
- 8 CCR 3203, Injury and Illness Prevention Program: 1 citation, $420
- 8 CCR 3576, General Machine Requirements: 1 citation, $375
- 8 CCR 5144, Respiratory protection: 1 citation, $375
Accidents investigated
Local pages: Huntington Beach employment lawyer.
How to read this record
Each row is one inspection by Cal/OSHA (or, rarely, federal OSHA) of one worksite. Why is the reason it was opened. Penalty is the current figure after any appeal or settlement; where it was reduced, the amount the inspector first proposed is shown under it. "Serious" means a realistic possibility of death or serious harm; "willful" and "repeat" carry penalties up to $162,851 each.
Citations document that the employer was told, in writing, what the rule required and when. That knowledge is often the center of a retaliation case: a worker who complained about the hazard an inspector later cited, and was then fired or cut, has a Labor Code 6310 claim, with lost wages and attorney's fees.
Full explainer: how to read a Cal/OSHA record.
If you work, or worked, at American Automated Engineering
Write down what you reported, to whom and when, and what changed afterward: shifts, pay, duties, write-ups. Request the inspection file from the Cal/OSHA district office using the activity number on the inspection page. An injury goes through workers' compensation; a firing, demotion or threat after a safety complaint or injury report is an employment claim with a one-year deadline at the Labor Commissioner (Labor Code 6310) and a longer one in court. Free, confidential review: (800) 371-3088 or send what you have.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor OSHA enforcement data, California inspections. Record last checked Nov 4, 2026. Back to the safety tracker.
About this data: Records come from the U.S. Department of Labor's OSHA enforcement datasets (inspection, violation, accident and accident injury tables), which carry Cal/OSHA's state-plan inspections alongside federal ones. We load every inspection of a California worksite opened since January 1, 2000 and refresh it weekly. Employer names, addresses and industry codes are as the inspecting office recorded them; similar names are grouped where they clearly refer to the same employer. A citation can be reduced, vacated or withdrawn on appeal, and an inspection can stay open for months, so a record can change. Penalties shown as "current" reflect the latest status in the federal file. This page is public information about the employer's regulatory record, not legal advice and not a statement that any person was harmed or any law broken beyond what the record states.