Machine shops · California

5th Axis Inc

San Diego, CA · ~227 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

5th Axis Inc runs at 87% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade C.

5th Axis Inc: 2.9 TCR = 87% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

5th Axis Inc safety composite

5th Axis Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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).

D

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.5

2021→2023

5th Axis Inc injury rate improved

5th Axis Inc's TCR fell 0.5 from 3.7 in 2021 to 3.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=3.7 · 2022=1.7 · 2023=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · San Diego, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 87% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #54/126
  • PHOTO CalmaxTechnology01
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~227 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CalmaxTechnology01 (0.0 TCR gap)

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5th Axis Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 5th Axis Inc averages 2.9 TCR (87% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

5th Axis Inc TCR series: 2021=3.7 · 2022=1.7 · 2023=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where 5th Axis Inc falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #54 safest of 126 Machine shops employers in California.

5th Axis Inc (227 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 5th Axis Inc
5th Axis Inc (227 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

5th Axis Inc has more employees than the Machine shops median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2023 3.2 1.9 5 0 0
2022 1.7 0.6 3 0 0
2021 3.7 3.7 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · CA · San Diego

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 1,979 employers in San Diego, 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 CalmaxTechnology01 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mancor-IN, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR C Machine Co Inc 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Universal Manufacturing Services, Inc. 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Channel Islands Vegetable Farms, Inc. 227 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farming2 227 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Pacifico FLC, Inc 227 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hunter 227 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC San Diego Health 9,310 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Atomics 8,108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health Human Services Agency 6,080 FTE
CITY-NEAR National University 4,955 FTE
NAT-TCR 069-El Paso/9817 Dyer 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Tucker 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Phillips Medisize Corporation - Phillips Medical New Richmond 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Embassy Darlington, LLC 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE King County Assessor's Office 227 FTE
NAT-SIZE Varney, Inc. 227 FTE
NAT-SIZE SEJONG 227 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fire Department 227 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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