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Surface Technologies Corporation: OSHA inspections and violations

San Diego, California · Ship Building and Repairing · NAICS 336611

11inspections
8citation items
$3,253current penalties
Jan 14, 2026last inspection

Since 2001, OSHA inspectors have visited Surface Technologies Corporation in California 11 times.

The most recent inspection opened on Jan 14, 2026 as a planned inspection, in San Diego.

In all, OSHA issued 8 citation items: 5 serious and 3 other-than-serious.

The proposed penalties came to $4,254; today they stand at $3,253, 24% less.

The rule cited most here is 1910.95 (noise), 2 times.

Among manufacturing employers, the typical cited inspection since 2015 ends with a $3,600 penalty. Surface Technologies Corporation averages $0 across 1 cited inspection.

It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.

Surface Technologies Corporation: OSHA citation items per year, 2001 to 2026
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 348689514 OPENED JAN 14, 2026Closed

Planned · Complete · Safety · 22 employees at the site · Closed Mar 5, 2026

Uss Portland Pier 12, San Diego, CA 92136 · Ship Building and Repairing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8) · Hazard communication
Other-than-serious$0$0Feb 6, 2026Final
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 1915.157(a) · Hand and body protection
Other-than-serious$0$0Feb 6, 2026Final

Inspection 110574506 OPENED SEP 1, 2009Closed

Planned · Complete · Safety · 52 employees at the site · Closed Nov 4, 2009

M/v Ssn Hampton, San Diego, CA 92106 · Ship Building and Repairing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1915.132(d) · Portable electric tools
Other-than-serious$701$0Oct 6, 2009Closed

Inspection 310165329 OPENED SEP 12, 2006Closed

Planned · Complete · Safety · 45 employees at the site · Closed Sep 12, 2006

Barge Yrbm- 44, Ns San Diego, San Diego, CA 92136 · Ship Building and Repairing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

No citations from this inspection.

Inspection 110571098 OPENED APR 19, 2006Closed

Planned · Complete · Safety · 56 employees at the site · Closed Jul 18, 2006

M/v Uss Nomitz (cv-68), San Diego, CA 92113 · Ship Building and Repairing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1915.73(c) · Guarding of deck openings and edges
Serious$1,200$900Jun 2, 2006Closed

Inspection 308983774 OPENED JUL 7, 2005Closed

Planned · Complete · Safety · 50 employees at the site · Closed Aug 15, 2005

Uss Dubuque (lpd-8), Ns 32nd Street, Pier 10, San Diego, CA 92136 · Ship Building and Repairing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
OSH Act Section 5(a)(1) · General Duty Clause
Serious$828$828Aug 3, 2005Closed

Inspection 110570579 OPENED MAY 19, 2004Closed

Planned · Complete · Health · 59 employees at the site · Closed Jun 16, 2004

Uss Benfold, 32nd Street, Pier 13, San Diego, CA 92136 · Ship Building and Repairing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

No citations from this inspection.

Inspection 110570553 OPENED MAR 11, 2004Closed

Planned · Complete · Health · 59 employees at the site · Closed Mar 19, 2004

Uss Tarawa Lph 1, 32nd St. Pier 13 (naval Station), San Diego, CA 92136 · Ship Building and Repairing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

No citations from this inspection.

Inspection 307375741 OPENED MAR 11, 2004Closed

Planned · Complete · Safety · 59 employees at the site · Closed Mar 12, 2004

Uss Tarawa Lph 1, 32nd St. Pier 13 (naval Station), San Diego, CA 92136 · Ship Building and Repairing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

No citations from this inspection.

3 older inspections

Inspection 110568706 OPENED DEC 12, 2001Closed

Planned · Complete · Safety · 60 employees at the site · Closed Jan 8, 2002

Uss Mt. Vernon, 32nd St., Naval Sta., San Diego, CA 92170 · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

No citations from this inspection.

Inspection 110568656 OPENED DEC 11, 2001Closed

Planned · Complete · Safety · 60 employees at the site · Closed Jan 25, 2002

Uss Denver,naval Station, San Diego, CA 92136 · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1915.131(f) · General precautions
Serious$825$825Jan 3, 2002Closed

Severe injury reports

Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 1 report on file.

May 13, 2020, San Diego: Hospitalization, amputation · amputations · fingertip(s)

An employee was helping move a portable scaffold on wheels. The scaffold struck a parked forklift, and the scaffold railing amputated the employee's left ring and middle fingertips. The employee was hospitalized, undergoing surgery to have the fingertips reattached.

The rules behind these citations

Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.

29 CFR 1910.1200 · Hazard communication

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8)

(8) The employer shall maintain in the workplace copies of the required safety data sheets for each hazardous chemical, and shall ensure that they are readily accessible during each work shift to employees when they are in their work area(s). (Electronic access and other alternatives to maintaining paper copies of the safety data sheets are permitted as long as no barriers to immediate employee access in each workplace are created by such options.)

29 CFR 1910.95 · Noise

29 CFR 1910.95(g)(5)(i)

(5) Baseline audiogram. (i) Within 6 months of an employee's first exposure at or above the action level, the employer shall establish a valid baseline audiogram against which subsequent audiograms can be compared.

29 CFR 1910.95(g)(6)

(6) Annual audiogram. At least annually after obtaining the baseline audiogram, the employer shall obtain a new audiogram for each employee exposed at or above an 8-hour time-weighted average of 85 decibels.

29 CFR 1915.131 · General precautions

29 CFR 1915.132 · Portable electric tools

29 CFR 1915.157 · Hand and body protection

29 CFR 1915.73 · Guarding of deck openings and edges

OSH Act Section 5 · General Duty Clause

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