Merit Aluminum, Inc. safety record at a glance
Merit Aluminum, Inc. has been the subject of 6 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between May 29, 2019 and Nov 25, 2025. 4 of them were accident inspections. All of them produced citations, 25 in all: 10 serious. Inspectors proposed $132,635 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $94,805. The largest single penalty, $37,800, came from an inspection opened Nov 25, 2025 in Corona. That places the employer at #487 of 122,853 California employers in the database by penalties.
Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Transportation and Warehousing; Manufacturing. Worksites in Corona, Adelanto.
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| Opened | City | Why | Result | Penalty | Closed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 25, 2025 | Corona | Accident | 3 citations 3 serious | $37,800 $53,100 proposed | Sep 3, 2026 |
| Jun 5, 2023 | Adelanto | Unprogrammed related | 2 citations 2 serious | $33,750 | Feb 20, 2025 |
| Apr 6, 2022 | Corona | Accident | 1 citation | $750 | Jul 11, 2022 |
| Mar 22, 2022 | Adelanto | Accident | 1 citation | $800 | Jul 18, 2022 |
| Mar 10, 2022 | Adelanto | Accident | 2 citations 1 serious | $6,000 | Jun 6, 2022 |
| May 29, 2019 | Adelanto | Complaint | 16 citations 4 serious | $15,705 $38,235 proposed | Jan 25, 2021 |
Also recorded as: Merit Aluminum Inc.
The rules this employer was cited under
- 8 CCR 3203, Injury and Illness Prevention Program: 5 citations, 1 serious, $13,625
- 8 CCR 5144, Respiratory protection: 4 citations, $1,120
- 8 CCR 3314, Lockout and cleaning of machinery: 3 citations, 3 serious, $37,800
- 8 CCR 3395, Heat illness prevention, outdoor: 2 citations, $675
- 8 CCR 3202: 1 citation, 1 serious, $22,500
- 8 CCR 3241, Live loads: 1 citation, 1 serious, $5,400
- 8 CCR 3650, Industrial trucks, operating rules: 1 citation, 1 serious, $4,050
- 8 CCR 2473.2, Covers and Canopies: 1 citation, 1 serious, $4,050
Accidents investigated
Local pages: Corona 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 Merit Aluminum, 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 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.