Protech Minerals LLC safety record at a glance
Protech Minerals LLC has been the subject of 31 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Oct 17, 2001 and Jul 2, 2024. 21 of them were planned inspections. 18 of them produced citations, 94 in all: 6 serious, 4 repeat. Inspectors proposed $49,520 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $39,860. The largest single penalty, $6,735, came from an inspection opened Aug 24, 2016 in Victorville. That places the employer at #2,238 of 122,853 California employers in the database by penalties.
Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction; Manufacturing. Worksites in Victorville, Baker, Yermo, Cantil.
Every inspection, newest first
Click a date for the citations in that inspection.
| Opened | City | Why | Result | Penalty | Closed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 2024 | Victorville | Complaint | 7 citations | $1,865 | Jan 7, 2025 |
| Jul 2, 2024 | Victorville | Complaint | no inspection made | $0 | Oct 14, 2024 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Baker | Planned | 1 citation | $130 | Aug 9, 2024 |
| Jul 26, 2022 | Victorville | Planned | 2 citations | $440 | Dec 6, 2022 |
| Oct 6, 2020 | Victorville | Planned | 3 citations | $475 | Jan 12, 2021 |
| Dec 18, 2019 | Planned | no inspection made | $0 | Jan 3, 2020 | |
| Nov 7, 2019 | Victorville | Planned | 2 citations | $410 | Jan 29, 2020 |
| Oct 7, 2019 | Yermo | Planned | 6 citations 2 repeat | $2,660 $4,330 proposed | Apr 27, 2021 |
| Oct 15, 2018 | Victorville | Planned | 11 citations 2 repeat | $5,580 | Jan 29, 2020 |
| Nov 9, 2017 | Victorville | Complaint | 5 citations 2 serious | $5,665 $10,615 proposed | Mar 13, 2019 |
| Sep 26, 2017 | Victorville | Planned | 9 citations 1 serious | $3,690 $4,590 proposed | Jan 2, 2019 |
| Oct 25, 2016 | Victorville | Complaint | 5 citations | $1,965 | Aug 28, 2017 |
| Aug 24, 2016 | Victorville | Complaint | 2 citations 1 serious | $6,735 | Jul 18, 2019 |
| Jun 8, 2016 | Victorville | Planned | 10 citations | $1,560 | Sep 8, 2016 |
| Feb 5, 2015 | Victorville | Follow-up | no citations | $0 | Feb 24, 2015 |
| Jul 18, 2014 | Victorville | Planned | 5 citations | $1,750 | Dec 31, 2015 |
| Apr 18, 2011 | Victorville | Planned | 3 citations | $600 $900 proposed | open |
| Jul 13, 2010 | Victorville | Complaint | 9 citations | $3,000 | Apr 4, 2018 |
| Aug 11, 2009 | Victorville | Planned | no citations | $0 | Aug 13, 2009 |
| Jul 9, 2009 | Cantil | Planned | no inspection made | $0 | Aug 3, 2009 |
| Apr 15, 2008 | Cantil | Complaint | 3 citations | $775 | Apr 25, 2017 |
| Oct 25, 2007 | Cantil | Planned | no inspection made | $0 | Dec 7, 2007 |
| Oct 23, 2007 | Victorville | Planned | 2 citations | $100 $150 proposed | Jan 12, 2011 |
| May 24, 2007 | Cantil | Planned | no citations | $0 | Jun 21, 2007 |
| Jul 20, 2006 | Cantil | Planned | no inspection made | $0 | Aug 29, 2006 |
| Nov 17, 2005 | Cantil | Planned | no inspection made | $0 | Dec 1, 2005 |
| Mar 10, 2005 | Cantil | Planned | no inspection made | $0 | Mar 18, 2005 |
| Sep 22, 2003 | Cantil | Planned | no inspection made | $0 | Sep 22, 2003 |
| Dec 4, 2002 | Cantil | Planned | no inspection made | $0 | Jan 2, 2003 |
| May 21, 2002 | Victorville | Complaint | 9 citations 2 serious | $2,460 $4,250 proposed | Apr 7, 2005 |
| Oct 17, 2001 | Victorville | Programmed related | no citations | $0 | Oct 23, 2001 |
Also recorded as: Protech Minerals, Inc.; Protech Minerals Inc; Protech Minerals; Protech Minerals Inc.; Protech Minerals, LLC.
The rules this employer was cited under
- 8 CCR 5144, Respiratory protection: 7 citations, $2,475
- 8 CCR 5204, Occupational Exposures to Respirable Crystalline Silica: 5 citations, $2,055
- 8 CCR 2340.22, Identification of Equipment: 4 citations, $2,530
- 8 CCR 3650, Industrial trucks, operating rules: 4 citations, $825
- 8 CCR 4851, Arc Welding and Cutting: 4 citations, $810
- 8 CCR 3210, Guardrails at elevated locations: 3 citations, 1 serious, $6,810
- 8 CCR 3314, Lockout and cleaning of machinery: 3 citations, 1 serious, $3,100
- 8 CCR 2340.16, Electrical work space: 3 citations, $840
Local pages: Victorville 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 Protech Minerals LLC
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.