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Applied Materials, Inc
OSHA: 5 insp.Injuries: 3 yrLabor: no recordImmigration: 913 LCAContracts: not listed
Applied Materials, Inc is an employer in Santa Clara, California in Computer and electronic product manufacturing. Federal records hold 5 OSHA inspections, 913 labor condition applications, 400 PERM applications and 3 years of injury summaries.
OSHA opened 5 inspections at Applied Materials, Inc sites in California since 2016, issuing 0 citations. Current penalties total $0, $0 per inspection, below the national figure of $3,754. No citation is recorded as contested.
On its 2025 Form 300A summary the employer reported 7,330 employees and 17 recordable cases, a total recordable case rate of 0.2 per 100 full-time workers, lower than the pooled rate for its industry (0.9; median establishment 0.0).
It filed 913 labor condition applications with OFLC across fiscal years 2025–2026, covering 3,081 worker positions. The median offered wage is $152,099 a year against a median prevailing wage of $142,417, above the median across all employers for its most common occupation ($108,000). The most common prevailing wage level is Level III (26% of filings).
OFLC records 400 PERM labor certification applications from the employer with a median offered wage of $126,672; the employer reported 5,809 employees on payroll.
OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Citations may be contested; the status shown reflects the record at the data date. Enforcement data through 14 Sep 2026.
Inspections by year
Compared with industry, state and nation
| Measure | This employer | NAICS 334 | California | US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citations per inspection | 0.0 | 2.0 | 1.9 | 1.9 |
| Current penalty per inspection | $0 | $3,553 | $3,729 | $3,754 |
| Share of inspections with a contested citation | 0% | — | 27% | 8% |
| Share of inspections with final orders on every citation | 0% | — | 59% | 56% |
Inspections with no citations count as "issued" with zero citations. Industry and state figures cover every inspection in the enforcement data since 2016, including employers without a page.
Inspections
| Opened | Type | Scope | Citations | Current penalty | Status | Cited standards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Dec 2025 | Unprogrammed related · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 28 Jun 2024 | Accident · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 5 Apr 2024 | Unprogrammed related · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 13 Aug 2021 | Planned · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 7 Aug 2018 | Planned · Safety | No inspection | 0 | — | Case closed |
Status is per inspection: "Contested" when any citation has a contest date and "Final order" when every citation has a final order date; "Issued" otherwise. Violation types: S serious, W willful, R repeat. Each date links to the inspection detail on osha.gov.
Injuries OSHA Injury Tracking Application, Form 300A
Establishments submit their own Form 300A summaries; OSHA publishes the data as submitted and does not verify it. Rates are per 100 full-time workers (cases × 200,000 ÷ hours worked). Calendar years 2023–2025.
Injury rate vs industry
Total recordable case rate for 2025. The industry median is the median rate across establishments with at least 20,000 hours in NAICS 334 (quartiles 0.0–1.5); "overall" rates pool all hours and cases.
By year
| Year | Establishments | Employees | Hours | Deaths | Days away | Restricted/transfer | Other | TRC rate | DART rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | 8,033 | 16,066,000 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| 2024 | 7 | 7,318 | 16,095,052 | 0 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| 2025 | 8 | 7,330 | 15,779,830 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
Figures sum every establishment filed under this employer name in California. Rates are blank where fewer than 2,000 hours were reported.
Labor Wage and Hour Division
The Wage and Hour Division publishes concluded compliance actions since fiscal year 2005; amounts are back wages the employer agreed to pay and civil money penalties assessed, as recorded at case conclusion. Data through 15 Jun 2026.
No concluded Wage and Hour Division compliance action names this employer in California in the data since fiscal year 2005.
Immigration Office of Foreign Labor Certification
Employer-specific case information was provided to OFLC by employers who submitted foreign labor certification applications. These are not employer responses to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' survey. Wage levels I–IV are as the employer stated on the application. LCA data through 30 Jun 2026; PERM through 30 Jun 2026.
H-1B labor condition applications
Applications by fiscal year
Prevailing wage levels
Level I 4%Level II 15%Level III 26%Level IV 24%Not stated 31%
| Measure | This employer | SOC 17-2112 | California | US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median offered wage | $152,099 | $108,000 | $156,853 | $122,221 |
| Offered wage, 25th–75th percentile | $128,250–$177,399 | $90,870–$133,300 | — | — |
| Share at Level I or II | 19% | 57% | 42% | 56% |
Wages annualised from the rate and unit on the application (hourly × 2,080). Medians use up to 400 sampled applications per employer. The occupation column is the employer's most common SOC code, Validation Engineers, across all employers.
Top job titles
| Job title | Filings | Median wage |
|---|---|---|
| Process Engineer | 138 | $150,481 |
| Technical Project/Program Management Engineer | 49 | $147,034 |
| Mechanical Engineer | 42 | $154,061 |
| Process Support Engineer | 42 | $110,455 |
| Software Engineer | 37 | $187,091 |
| Systems Engineer | 27 | $164,213 |
| IT Application Solution Management Analyst | 23 | $150,000 |
| Business Intelligence Analyst | 22 | $147,621 |
| Customer Engineer | 20 | $119,102 |
| Global Product Support (GPS) Engineer | 18 | $145,023 |
| Product Marketing Analyst | 18 | $151,461 |
| IT Solutions Management Analyst | 17 | $155,201 |
Occupations (SOC)
| Occupation | Filings | SOC median wage |
|---|---|---|
| Validation Engineers | 180 | $108,000 |
| Materials Engineers | 109 | $120,000 |
| Mechanical Engineers | 97 | $107,146 |
| Architectural and Engineering Managers | 51 | $183,000 |
| Software Developers | 50 | $138,494 |
| Chemical Engineers | 39 | $117,500 |
| Data Scientists | 37 | $123,741 |
| Electrical Engineers | 35 | $121,459 |
Worksite states
California 578 · Texas 166 · Arizona 55 · Massachusetts 41 · Oregon 28 · New York 17 · Idaho 7 · Montana 5
Visa classes: H-1B 911, H-1B1 Singapore 2. Applications are attributed to the employer's state on the form (California); worksites may be elsewhere.
PERM labor certification (green card sponsorship)
Top PERM job titles
| Job title | Applications |
|---|---|
| Process Engineer | 47 |
| Customer Engineer | 38 |
| Mechanical Engineer | 29 |
| Technical Project/Program Management Engineer | 23 |
| Process Support Engineer | 16 |
| Product Quality & Reliability Engineer | 16 |
| Software Engineer | 13 |
| Business Intelligence Analyst | 11 |
| Financial Analyst | 11 |
| Systems Engineer | 10 |
PERM occupations
Contracts USAspending.gov
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Not among the top 3,903 federal contract recipients loaded from USAspending for the latest twelve months. Smaller awards can be searched on USAspending.gov.
Questions and answers
Has OSHA inspected Applied Materials, Inc?
Yes. OSHA records 5 inspections at Applied Materials, Inc sites in California since 2016, most recently opened 10 Dec 2025.
Were there penalties, and are they final?
The recorded inspections carry no citations.
Did the Labor Department find back wages due from Applied Materials, Inc?
No concluded Wage and Hour Division compliance action names Applied Materials, Inc in California in the data since fiscal year 2005.
Does Applied Materials, Inc sponsor H-1B workers, and at what wages?
It filed 913 labor condition applications in fiscal years 2025–2026; 908 were certified. The median offered wage is $152,099 a year; the most common job title is Process Engineer.
Does Applied Materials, Inc sponsor green cards (PERM)?
OFLC records 400 PERM applications in fiscal years 2024–2026, 386 of them certified.
Does Applied Materials, Inc hold federal contracts?
It is not among the top federal contract recipients loaded from USAspending; smaller awards are not covered on this site.
Have there been union elections at Applied Materials, Inc?
NLRB election results are not loaded on this site at present, so this page cannot say either way. The NLRB publishes recent election results and a case search on nlrb.gov.
Is this the same company as the one I am looking for?
Records are matched by normalised name and state. Subsidiaries, franchisees and other states' entities have their own records. See the methodology for how matching works.
Provenance
OSHA inspections and violations: US Department of Labor enforcement data, data.dol.gov, through 14 Sep 2026, inspections opened since 2016. Injury summaries: OSHA Injury Tracking Application Form 300A data, calendar years 2023, 2024, 2025. Wage and Hour compliance actions: data.dol.gov, concluded cases through 15 Jun 2026. LCA and PERM: OFLC disclosure files, fiscal years 2025–2026 through 30 Jun 2026. Federal contracts: USAspending recipient API, latest twelve months at 1 Oct 2026. NLRB election results are not loaded in this build. US government works, public domain; USAspending data is released under CC0. Page built 1 Oct 2026; errors in processing are corrected at the next build (corrections). Disputes about a record go to the agency that holds it.