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American Masonry Specialists Cal/OSHA Inspections and Citations

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American Masonry Specialists: 10 inspections, 5 citations and $810 in penalties, latest opened Jul 31, 2026.

Every Cal/OSHA and federal OSHA inspection of a California workplace opened since 2000: 238,466 inspections of 122,854 employers, 447,188 citations, $586,238,760 in penalties, 5,717 deaths investigated.

American Masonry Specialists safety record at a glance

American Masonry Specialists has been the subject of 10 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Nov 14, 2017 and Jul 31, 2026. 4 of them were referral inspections. 5 of them produced citations, 5 in all: 0 serious. Inspectors proposed $1,395 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $810. The largest single penalty, $335, came from an inspection opened Jan 29, 2024 in Chico. That places the employer at #56,410 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties.

Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Construction. Worksites in Redding, Chico, Oroville, Paradise, Willows.

Every inspection, newest first

Click a date for the citations in that inspection.

OpenedCityWhyResultProposedPenaltyClosed
Jul 31, 2026ReddingPlanned1 citation$225$225Sep 18, 2026
Mar 16, 2026ChicoPlanned1 citation$3350May 18, 2026
Nov 27, 2024OrovilleReferral1 citation$2500May 28, 2025
Jan 29, 2024ChicoProgrammed related1 citation$335$335May 16, 2024
Dec 9, 2022OrovilleReferralno citations00Feb 24, 2023
May 28, 2021ChicoFollow-upno citations00Jun 28, 2021
Jul 8, 2020ParadiseFollow-upno citations00Nov 13, 2020
Jan 29, 2019ChicoReferralno citations00Feb 6, 2019
Nov 29, 2017WillowsUnprogrammed related1 citation$250$250Feb 27, 2018
Nov 14, 2017ChicoReferralno citations00Jan 10, 2018

The rules this employer was cited under

Local pages: Chico 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. 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 Masonry Specialists

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.

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