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Country Builders Construction Cal/OSHA Inspections and Citations

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Country Builders Construction: 21 inspections, 9 citations and $30,200 in penalties, latest opened Feb 12, 2025.

Every Cal/OSHA and federal OSHA inspection of a California workplace opened since 2000: 238,466 inspections of 122,853 employers, 447,188 citations, $586,238,760 in penalties, 5,717 deaths investigated.

Country Builders Construction safety record at a glance

Country Builders Construction has been the subject of 21 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Aug 17, 2001 and Feb 12, 2025. 14 of them were planned inspections. 5 of them produced citations, 9 in all: 2 serious. Inspectors proposed $44,870 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $30,200. The largest single penalty, $16,750, came from an inspection opened Feb 28, 2022 in Oakland. That places the employer at #3,484 of 122,853 California employers in the database by penalties.

Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Construction. Worksites in El Cerrito, Oakland, Berkeley, San Francisco, Half Moon Bay, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Redwood City.

Every inspection, newest first

Click a date for the citations in that inspection.

OpenedCityWhyResultPenaltyClosed
Feb 12, 2025El CerritoPlannedno citations$0Feb 28, 2025
Feb 28, 2022OaklandAccident2 citations 1 serious$16,750
$21,125 proposed
Apr 17, 2023
May 3, 2021BerkeleyAccidentopen, no citations yet$0open
Feb 7, 2020San FranciscoAccident1 citation$3,500
$5,000 proposed
Apr 13, 2021
Oct 31, 2018San FranciscoAccident2 citations$1,225
$1,485 proposed
Nov 11, 2019
Apr 14, 2016Half Moon BayAccident2 citations 1 serious$8,350
$16,450 proposed
Aug 25, 2017
Jun 20, 2014BerkeleyReferral2 citations$375
$810 proposed
Dec 8, 2014
Jan 7, 2014OaklandPlannedno citations$0Jan 8, 2014
Apr 24, 2013San FranciscoAccidentno citations$0Jan 24, 2014
May 14, 2009San FranciscoPlannedno citations$0May 14, 2009
Feb 18, 2009San FranciscoPlannedno citations$0Feb 18, 2009
May 14, 2008SunnyvalePlannedno citations$0May 14, 2008
May 7, 2008SunnyvalePlannedno citations$0May 7, 2008
Apr 29, 2008SunnyvalePlannedno citations$0Apr 29, 2008
Aug 2, 2007OaklandPlannedno citations$0Aug 2, 2007
Jun 13, 2007San FranciscoPlannedno citations$0Jun 21, 2007
Jan 18, 2006San FranciscoPlannedno citations$0Jan 18, 2006
Nov 29, 2005BerkeleyPlannedno citations$0Dec 5, 2005
Apr 2, 2004Palo AltoPlannedno citations$0Apr 12, 2004
Oct 29, 2003BerkeleyPlannedno citations$0Nov 6, 2003
Aug 17, 2001Redwood CityPlannedno citations$0Dec 27, 2001

Also recorded as: Country Builders Construction, Inc.; Country Builders Construction Inc; Country Builders Construction Inc.; Country Builders Construction, Inc.

The rules this employer was cited under

Accidents investigated

Feb 23, 2022, Oakland. Employee is struck by beams, falls, and receives multiple fr 1 hospitalized Inspection
Jan 30, 2020, San Francisco. Employee sustains multiple injuries in fall from joist 1 hospitalized Inspection
Oct 29, 2018, San Francisco. Employee sustains multiple injuries in fall through floor op 1 hospitalized Inspection
not stated, San Francisco. Accident investigation 1 hospitalized Inspection

Local pages: Oakland employment lawyer, Berkeley 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 Country Builders Construction

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.

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