Valves, plumbing and heating, merchant wholesalers · California

2018 - Garden Grove

Garden Grove, CA · ~32 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

2018 - Garden Grove runs at 275% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Valves, plumbing and heating, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

2018 - Garden Grove: 6.1 TCR = 275% of Valves, plumbing and heating, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

2018 - Garden Grove safety composite

2018 - Garden Grove scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

2018 - Garden Grove: 2.9 → 9.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.52× in 2024

2018 - Garden Grove's TCR rose 6.3 from 2.9 in 2022 to 9.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423720 · Garden Grove, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.1 · 275% of ind

  • DART 9.2 DART
  • RANK #62/85
  • PHOTO Medford
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Medford (0.0 TCR gap)

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2018 - Garden Grove in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows 2018 - Garden Grove averages 6.1 TCR (275% of the Valves, plumbing and heating, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

2018 - Garden Grove TCR series: 2022=2.9 · 2024=9.2 · BLS 2.2

Where 2018 - Garden Grove falls in its industry

853 Valves, plumbing and heating, establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #62 safest of 85 Valves, plumbing and heating, employers in California.

2018 - Garden Grove (32 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 3.3 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 2018 - Garden Grove
2018 - Garden Grove (32 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 3.3

2018 - Garden Grove has fewer employees than the Valves, plumbing and heating, merchant w median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 9.2 9.2 2 0 0
2022 2.9 2.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423720 · CA · Garden Grove

853 Valves, plumbing and heating, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 145 employers in Garden Grove, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Medford 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hajoca Corporation - 740 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR PLASTIC DEVELOPMENT COMPANY OF PA 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northwest Pipe Fittings, Inc. of Butte, MT 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Schreiner Farms 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE FIVE POINTS T.I.C. 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE OFFICE 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brocchini Farms Inc. 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southland Industries 6,124 FTE
CITY-NEAR City Hall 677 FTE
CITY-NEAR Great Wolf Lodge 649 FTE
CITY-NEAR King Janitorial Equipment Services 645 FTE
NAT-TCR Kamps Pallets Detroit 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Lumber One 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR WCICC Information Technology 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR NK Parts Main Campus 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Daryl Flood Workplace Services, Inc 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Denver CS Alaska 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE 7251-Pdllc-Cedar Crest College 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allied Waterproofing, Inc. 32 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.