Valves, plumbing and heating, merchant wholesalers · California

5004 - Sylmar

Sylmar, CA · ~26 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

5004 - Sylmar runs at 313% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Valves, plumbing and heating, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

5004 - Sylmar: 6.9 TCR = 313% of Valves, plumbing and heating, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

5004 - Sylmar safety composite

5004 - Sylmar 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.37 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

5004 - Sylmar: 4.4 → 9.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.36× in 2024

5004 - Sylmar's TCR rose 5.0 from 4.4 in 2022 to 9.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423720 · Sylmar, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.9 · 313% of ind

  • DART 9.4 DART
  • RANK #71/85
  • PHOTO 201
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 201 (0.0 TCR gap)

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5004 - Sylmar in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 5004 - Sylmar averages 6.9 TCR (313% 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

5004 - Sylmar TCR series: 2022=4.4 · 2024=9.4 · BLS 2.2

Where 5004 - Sylmar falls in its industry

853 Valves, plumbing and heating, establishments

Safer than 14% 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 #71 safest of 85 Valves, plumbing and heating, employers in California.

5004 - Sylmar (26 employees, TCR 6.9) 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 5004 - Sylmar
5004 - Sylmar (26 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 3.3

5004 - Sylmar 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 9.4 9.4 2 0 0
2022 4.4 4.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423720 · CA · Sylmar

853 Valves, plumbing and heating, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 112 employers in Sylmar, 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 201 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hajoca 403 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR PACE Supply Napa Branch 3 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4700 Poplar Level Rd 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE HAULING & TRAILER SHOP 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Seasholtz Co., LLC 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Redwood Valley Vineyards 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Central Coast Vineyards 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Olive View-UCLA Medical Center 2,600 FTE
CITY-NEAR CRM Sylmar CA 1,331 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 405 1,319 FTE
CITY-NEAR CN Sylmar 1,270 FTE
NAT-TCR Rocky Mountain Colby Pipe 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Evergreen Park Il - 3303 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Louisville Ky - 3373 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Plano Dc Flatbed - 3239 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Romtec Utilites Inc. 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE EH Moose Lake Clinic 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE 105146 - HDOT - Runway 8L 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE NH-Oak Creek Community Hospital 26 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.