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Kleinfelder, Inc.

San Diego, California · NAICS 541620 · 2,277 employees reported · 58 federal records

OSHA: 3 insp.Injuries: 3 yrLabor: no recordImmigration: 52 LCAContracts: not listed

Kleinfelder, Inc. is an employer in San Diego, California in Professional, scientific, and technical services. Federal records hold 3 OSHA inspections, 52 labor condition applications, 3 PERM applications and 3 years of injury summaries.

OSHA opened 3 inspections at Kleinfelder, Inc. sites in California since 2016, issuing 1 citation, 1 of them classified serious, willful or repeat. Current penalties total $18,000, $6,000 per inspection, above the national figure of $3,754. No citation is recorded as contested.

On its 2025 Form 300A summary the employer reported 2,277 employees and 17 recordable cases, a total recordable case rate of 0.8 per 100 full-time workers, lower than the pooled rate for its industry (1.2; median establishment 0.0).

It filed 52 labor condition applications with OFLC across fiscal years 2025–2026, covering 52 worker positions. The median offered wage is $70,803 a year against a median prevailing wage of $70,803, below the median across all employers for its most common occupation ($91,900). The most common prevailing wage level is Level I (69% of filings).

OFLC records 3 PERM labor certification applications from the employer with a median offered wage of $95,701; the employer reported 113 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.

3inspections since 2016
1citations issued1 serious, willful or repeat
$18Kcurrent penaltiesinitial $18K
0inspections with a contested citation1 with final orders on all

Inspections by year

201620172024
Inspections opened per year; 2016: 1 citations, $18K · 2017: 0 citations, $0 · 2024: 0 citations, $0.

Compared with industry, state and nation

MeasureThis employerNAICS 541CaliforniaUS
Citations per inspection0.31.31.91.9
Current penalty per inspection$6,000$2,237$3,729$3,754
Share of inspections with a contested citation0%—27%8%
Share of inspections with final orders on every citation33%—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.

Citations by standard

StandardSubjectCitations
4353(A)—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

OpenedTypeScopeCitationsCurrent penaltyStatusCited standards
24 Oct 2024Referral · HealthPartial0—Case closed
21 Jun 2017Unprogrammed related · HealthPartial0—Case closed
27 Oct 2016Accident · SafetyPartial1 (1 S/W/R)$18,000Final order4353(A) (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.

0.8total recordable case rate, 2025industry median 0.0
0.0DART rate (days away, restricted or transferred)industry 0.5
2,277employees reported, 20251 establishment
17recordable cases, 20250 deaths, 1 with days away

Injury rate vs industry

This employer0.8
Industry median (541)0.0
Industry overall1.2
California overall3.7
All establishments3.5

Total recordable case rate for 2025. The industry median is the median rate across establishments with at least 20,000 hours in NAICS 541 (quartiles 0.0–1.6); "overall" rates pool all hours and cases.

By year

YearEstablishmentsEmployeesHoursDeathsDays awayRestricted/transferOtherTRC rateDART rate
202312,0823,813,12802090.60.1
202412,2494,144,04401080.40.0
202512,2774,356,431010160.80.0

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

52applications, FY2025–202652 worker positions
100%certified0 denied, 0 withdrawn
$70,803median offered wage (annualised)prevailing $70,803
0%filed as H-1B dependentno willful-violator flag

Applications by fiscal year

FY2025FY2026 (to date)
Labor condition applications by fiscal year of decision; FY2025: 34 certified, 0 denied · FY2026: 18 certified, 0 denied. The latest fiscal year is partial.

Prevailing wage levels

Level I 69%Level II 23%Level III 4%Level IV 4%Not stated 0%

MeasureThis employerSOC 17-2051CaliforniaUS
Median offered wage$70,803$91,900$156,853$122,221
Offered wage, 25th–75th percentile$65,728–$82,056$79,040–$112,000——
Share at Level I or II92%69%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, Civil Engineers, across all employers.

Top job titles

Job titleFilingsMedian wage
Professional22$67,933
Staff Professional I17$68,037
Staff Professional II5$82,326
STAFF PROFESSIONAL I4$81,266
Senior Professional2—
Project Professional2—

Worksite states

Texas 13 · California 8 · Ohio 8 · North Carolina 5 · Massachusetts 5 · Pennsylvania 3 · Arizona 2 · Oklahoma 2

Visa classes: E-3 Australian 2, H-1B 50. Applications are attributed to the employer's state on the form (California); worksites may be elsewhere.

PERM labor certification (green card sponsorship)

3PERM applications, FY2024–2026
100%certified0 denied, 0 withdrawn
$95,701median offered wage
113employees on payroll, as stated
FY2024FY2025FY2026 (to date)
PERM applications by fiscal year of decision; FY2024: 0 certified, 0 denied · FY2025: 1 certified, 0 denied · FY2026: 2 certified, 0 denied. FY2024 covers the new Form 9089 only; the latest fiscal year is partial.

Top PERM job titles

Job titleApplications
Project Professional1
Staff Professional II - Geotechnical Engineer1
Staff Professional II (Structural Engineer)1

PERM occupations

OccupationApplications
Civil Engineers3

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 Kleinfelder, Inc.?

Yes. OSHA records 3 inspections at Kleinfelder, Inc. sites in California since 2016, most recently opened 24 Oct 2024.

Were there penalties, and are they final?

1 citation with current penalties totalling $18,000. 1 inspection has a final order on every citation, 0 have a contested citation and 2 are 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 Kleinfelder, Inc.?

No concluded Wage and Hour Division compliance action names Kleinfelder, Inc. in California in the data since fiscal year 2005.

Does Kleinfelder, Inc. sponsor H-1B workers, and at what wages?

It filed 52 labor condition applications in fiscal years 2025–2026; 52 were certified. The median offered wage is $70,803 a year; the most common job title is Professional.

Does Kleinfelder, Inc. sponsor green cards (PERM)?

OFLC records 3 PERM applications in fiscal years 2024–2026, 3 of them certified.

Does Kleinfelder, 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 Kleinfelder, 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.