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U S Borax Cal/OSHA Inspections and Citations

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

U S Borax: 37 inspections, 21 citations and $29,420 in penalties, latest opened May 13, 2014.

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.

U S Borax safety record at a glance

U S Borax has been the subject of 37 Cal/OSHA inspections in California since 2000, opened between Feb 2, 2000 and May 13, 2014. 14 of them were complaint inspections. 16 of them produced citations, 21 in all: 2 serious. Inspectors proposed $51,430 in penalties; after appeals and settlements the current total is $29,420. The largest single penalty, $18,750, came from an inspection opened Aug 29, 2005 in Boron. That places the employer at #3,652 of 122,854 California employers in the database by penalties.

Industry as coded by the inspecting office: Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction; Manufacturing. Worksites in Boron, Lone Pine, Wilmington.

Every inspection, newest first

Click a date for the citations in that inspection.

OpenedCityWhyResultProposedPenaltyClosed
May 13, 2014BoronAccidentno citations00Jul 28, 2014
Oct 14, 2013BoronAccidentno citations00Mar 19, 2014
Jul 25, 2013BoronAccident2 citations$5,280$5,280Nov 18, 2014
Jul 25, 2013BoronUnprogrammed relatedno citations00Oct 14, 2013
Mar 13, 2012BoronReferral1 citation$375$375Jun 14, 2012
Jul 17, 2007Lone PinePlannedno citations00Jul 25, 2007
Mar 1, 2007BoronAccident1 citation$375$375Jul 13, 2007
May 31, 2006BoronAccidentno citations00Jun 30, 2006
Aug 29, 2005BoronAccident2 citations 2 serious$40,500$18,750Jan 29, 2008
Mar 10, 2005BoronPlannedno citations00Apr 18, 2005
Jan 6, 2005BoronPlanned1 citation$560$450Jul 20, 2006
Dec 15, 2004BoronComplaintno citations00Dec 15, 2004
Jul 16, 2004BoronAccident1 citation$450$450Jul 20, 2006
Jun 28, 2004WilmingtonComplaint1 citation$280$280Aug 30, 2006
Aug 18, 2003BoronPlannedno citations00Oct 1, 2003
Apr 14, 2003BoronComplaintno citations00Aug 5, 2004
Mar 5, 2003WilmingtonComplaint1 citation$185$185Sep 4, 2006
Jan 6, 2003WilmingtonComplaint3 citations$525$375Dec 31, 2004
Nov 5, 2002BoronAccident1 citation$300$300Jan 31, 2003
Aug 23, 2002BoronComplaint1 citation$280$280May 27, 2003
May 21, 2002BoronComplaintno citations00May 21, 2002
May 13, 2002BoronComplaint2 citations$370$370Oct 8, 2002
May 2, 2002BoronComplaintno citations00Jun 29, 2002
Apr 8, 2002BoronPlanned1 citation$300$300Jul 19, 2002
Dec 21, 2001BoronComplaintno citations00Dec 21, 2001
Nov 8, 2001BoronComplaintno citations00Feb 19, 2002
Oct 5, 2001BoronPlannedno citations00Oct 18, 2001
Jul 19, 2001BoronComplaintno citations00Nov 5, 2001
Apr 18, 2001WilmingtonAccident1 citation$750$750Jul 1, 2002
Jan 19, 2001BoronPlannedno citations00Jan 19, 2001
Sep 26, 2000BoronAccidentno citations00Oct 3, 2000
Aug 10, 2000BoronPlannedno citations00Sep 1, 2000
Aug 3, 2000BoronAccident1 citation$600$600Nov 20, 2001
Aug 3, 2000BoronAccidentno citations00Aug 31, 2000
Aug 3, 2000BoronAccidentno citations00Sep 1, 2000
Jun 1, 2000BoronComplaint1 citation$300$300Jan 25, 2008
Feb 2, 2000BoronComplaintno citations00Jul 7, 2000

Also recorded as: U S Borax Inc; U S Borax, Inc.

The rules this employer was cited under

Accidents investigated

Feb 21, 2013, Boron. Bay Worker Trips on Uneven Surface and Fractures Femur 1 hospitalized Inspection
Feb 28, 2007, Boron. Employee Fractures Nose When Part Under Pressure Gives Way 1 hospitalized Inspection
May 30, 2006, Boron. Employee's Finger Is Amputated by Fan Inspection
Aug 28, 2005, Boron. Employee Falls Into Hot Liquid and Is Burned 1 hospitalized Inspection
Jan 6, 2005, Boron. Employee's Face Is Burned by Arc Flash 1 hospitalized Inspection
Jul 14, 2004, Boron. Employee fell from ladder and fractures ankle 1 hospitalized Inspection
Apr 2, 2002, Wilmington. Employee's finger severed due to equipment malfunction 1 hospitalized Inspection
not stated, Boron. Accident investigation 1 hospitalized Inspection
not stated, Boron. Accident investigation Inspection

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 U S Borax

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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