American Borate Company safety record at a glance
American Borate Company has been the subject of 16 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Feb 23, 2000 and Jan 8, 2007. 12 of them were planned inspections. 8 of them produced citations, 25 in all: 5 serious. Inspectors proposed $26,115 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $17,680. The largest single penalty, $6,895, came from an inspection opened Aug 9, 2001 in Death Valley. That places the employer at #8,371 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties. It also appears in 1 federal wage and hour case.
Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction. Worksites in Death Valley, Dunn.
Every inspection, newest first
Click a date for the citations in that inspection.
| Opened | City | Why | Result | Proposed | Penalty | Closed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 2007 | Death Valley | Planned | 1 citation | $110 | $110 | Apr 19, 2007 |
| Feb 28, 2006 | Death Valley | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | May 3, 2006 |
| Aug 23, 2005 | Death Valley | Planned | 4 citations | $645 | $645 | Jun 26, 2006 |
| Feb 7, 2005 | Death Valley | Planned | no inspection made | 0 | 0 | Feb 9, 2005 |
| Aug 10, 2004 | Death Valley | Accident | 3 citations | $6,100 | $3,600 | Jan 23, 2008 |
| Jan 15, 2004 | Death Valley | Planned | 4 citations | $880 | $880 | Jun 6, 2005 |
| Jul 23, 2003 | Death Valley | Planned | 2 citations 1 serious | $1,950 | $1,950 | Oct 6, 2003 |
| Mar 25, 2003 | Death Valley | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Mar 25, 2003 |
| Feb 27, 2003 | Death Valley | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Feb 27, 2003 |
| Nov 4, 2002 | Dunn | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Jun 27, 2003 |
| Oct 22, 2002 | Death Valley | Planned | 3 citations 1 serious | $3,300 | $3,300 | Jul 2, 2008 |
| Sep 24, 2001 | Death Valley | Complaint | no citations | 0 | 0 | Nov 1, 2001 |
| Aug 9, 2001 | Death Valley | Complaint | 7 citations 3 serious | $12,830 | $6,895 | Jun 7, 2005 |
| Jan 30, 2001 | Death Valley | Planned | no inspection made | 0 | 0 | Feb 14, 2001 |
| Apr 19, 2000 | Death Valley | Planned | no citations | 0 | 0 | Jul 7, 2000 |
| Feb 23, 2000 | Death Valley | Referral | 1 citation | $300 | $300 | Sep 13, 2010 |
Also recorded as: American Borate - Billie Mine; American Borate CO - Billie Mine.
The rules this employer was cited under
- 8 CCR 7065: 3 citations, 1 serious, $3,020
- 8 CCR 7055: 2 citations, $600
- 8 CCR 2340.1: 1 citation, 1 serious, $2,925
- 8 CCR 7210: 1 citation, 1 serious, $2,925
- 8 CCR 342, Reporting serious injuries and deaths: 1 citation, $2,500
- 8 CCR 4002, Machine guarding, moving parts: 1 citation, 1 serious, $1,800
- 8 CCR 7037: 1 citation, $550
- 8 CCR 7021: 1 citation, $550
Accidents investigated
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. Proposed is the penalty the inspector assessed; penalty is the current figure after any appeal or settlement. "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 Borate Company
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 1, 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.