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car tech
OSHA: 4 insp.Injuries: 3 yrLabor: no recordImmigration: 4 PERMContracts: not listed
Across the sources on this site, car tech (Opelika, Alabama) appears in 4 OSHA inspections, 4 PERM applications and 3 years of injury summaries.
OSHA opened 4 inspections at car tech sites in Alabama since 2016, issuing 14 citations, 8 of them classified serious, willful or repeat. Current penalties total $15,450 (initially $24,141), $3,863 per inspection, close to the national figure of $3,754. No citation is recorded as contested.
On its 2025 Form 300A summary the employer reported 157 employees and 9 recordable cases, a total recordable case rate of 3.5 per 100 full-time workers, about the same as the pooled rate for its industry (2.9; median establishment 2.1).
OFLC records 4 PERM labor certification applications from the employer with a median offered wage of $59,415; the employer reported 107 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 336 | Alabama | US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citations per inspection | 3.5 | 2.0 | 1.9 | 1.9 |
| Current penalty per inspection | $3,863 | $5,702 | $6,538 | $3,754 |
| Share of inspections with a contested citation | 0% | — | 3% | 8% |
| Share of inspections with final orders on every citation | 75% | — | 67% | 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.
Citations by standard
| Standard | Subject | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| 1910.95 | Occupational noise exposure | 7 |
| 1910.1200 | Hazard communication | 4 |
| 1910.147 | The control of hazardous energy (lockout/tagout) | 1 |
| 1910.212 | Machinery and machine guarding, general requirements | 1 |
| 1910.242 | Hand and portable powered tools and equipment, general | 1 |
Standard numbers as the record labels them (29 CFR section; 5(a)(1) is the General Duty Clause). State-plan agencies such as Cal/OSHA cite their own codes, which appear here as recorded. Counted from the first twelve citations of each inspection.
Inspections
| Opened | Type | Scope | Citations | Current penalty | Status | Cited standards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Dec 2020 | Follow-up · Health | Complete | 1 (1 S/W/R) | $150 | Final order | 1910.95(l)(1) (Repeat) |
| 7 Dec 2020 | Follow-up · Safety | Complete | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 1 May 2019 | Referral · Health | Partial | 10 (4 S/W/R) | $4,300 | Final order | 1910.95(c)(1) (Serious), 1910.95(d)(1) (Serious), 1910.95(g)(1) (Serious), 1910.95(k)(1) (Serious), 1910.95(i)(3), 1910.95(l)(1) … +4 |
| 23 Apr 2019 | Planned · Safety | Complete | 3 (3 S/W/R) | $11,000 | Final order | 1910.147(c)(4)(ii)(b) (Serious), 1910.212(a)(1) (Serious), 1910.242(b) (Serious) |
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 336 (quartiles 0.3–4.6); "overall" rates pool all hours and cases.
By year
| Year | Establishments | Employees | Hours | Deaths | Days away | Restricted/transfer | Other | TRC rate | DART rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 105 | 275,233 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 5.8 | 5.8 |
| 2024 | 1 | 165 | 416,495 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1.9 | 1.9 |
| 2025 | 1 | 157 | 517,969 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 3.5 | 3.5 |
Figures sum every establishment filed under this employer name in Alabama. 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 Alabama 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.
No labor condition application from this employer in Alabama appears in OFLC disclosure data for fiscal years 2025–2026.
PERM labor certification (green card sponsorship)
Top PERM job titles
| Job title | Applications |
|---|---|
| Technical Sales Manager | 1 |
| Mechanical Engineer | 1 |
| CMM Scientific Technician | 1 |
| Maintenance Manager | 1 |
PERM occupations
| Occupation | Applications |
|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineers | 1 |
| Mechanical Engineering Technologists and Technicians | 1 |
| First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers | 1 |
Contracts USAspending.gov
USAspending recipient totals are federal contract obligations reported by awarding agencies for the latest twelve months; a recipient profile is a company-level record, not a per-state one. Retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
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 car tech?
Yes. OSHA records 4 inspections at car tech sites in Alabama since 2016, most recently opened 7 Dec 2020.
Were there penalties, and are they final?
14 citations with current penalties totalling $15,450. 3 inspections have a final order on every citation, 0 have a contested citation and 1 is recorded as issued. Citations may be contested; the status shown reflects the record at the data date.
Did the Labor Department find back wages due from car tech?
No concluded Wage and Hour Division compliance action names car tech in Alabama in the data since fiscal year 2005.
Does car tech sponsor H-1B workers, and at what wages?
No labor condition application from car tech in Alabama appears in OFLC disclosure data for fiscal years 2025–2026. LCAs are filed by the employer's headquarters state, so a subsidiary or another state's entity may hold the filings.
Does car tech sponsor green cards (PERM)?
OFLC records 4 PERM applications in fiscal years 2024–2026, 4 of them certified.
Does car tech 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 car tech?
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.