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HMT Tank Service Inc Cal/OSHA Inspections and Citations

Benjamin Eghbali, Esq.Legal notes by Benjamin Eghbali, Esq.,

HMT Tank Service Inc: 4 inspections, 6 citations and $23,300 in penalties, 1 death investigated, latest opened Feb 27, 2017.

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.

HMT Tank Service Inc safety record at a glance

HMT Tank Service Inc has been the subject of 4 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Mar 9, 2004 and Feb 27, 2017. 2 of them were complaint inspections. 3 of them produced citations, 6 in all: 1 serious. Inspectors proposed $43,650 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $23,300. The largest single penalty, $20,750, came from an inspection opened Apr 10, 2006 in Wilmington. 1 worker death was investigated. That places the employer at #5,293 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties.

Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction; Administrative and Support and Waste Management Services; Construction. Worksites in San Francisco, Wilmington, Stockton, San Jose.

Every inspection, newest first

Click a date for the citations in that inspection.

OpenedCityWhyResultProposedPenaltyClosed
Feb 27, 2017San FranciscoUnprogrammed related2 citations$1,050$450May 10, 2018
Apr 10, 2006WilmingtonAccidentdeath 2 citations 1 serious$40,500$20,750Aug 22, 2009
Dec 2, 2004StocktonComplaint2 citations$2,100$2,100Jul 26, 2005
Mar 9, 2004San JoseComplaintno citations00May 27, 2004

Also recorded as: HMT Tank Service, Inc.; HMT Tank Service, LLC.

The rules this employer was cited under

Accidents investigated

Apr 7, 2006, Wilmington. Employee Is Killed When Struck by Falling Tank Roof 1 death Inspection

Local pages: San Francisco employment lawyer, Stockton 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 HMT Tank Service Inc

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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