Emergency road services (i.e., tow service) · California

A & B Towing

Costa Mesa, CA · ~26 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

A & B Towing runs at 44% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Emergency road services (i.e., tow service) workplace, earning a grade A.

A & B Towing: 2.0 TCR = 44% of Emergency road services (i.e., tow service) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

A & B Towing safety composite

A & B Towing scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−6.0

2017→2019

A & B Towing injury rate improved

A & B Towing's TCR fell 6.0 from 6.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.0 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=6.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488410 · Costa Mesa, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 2.0 · 44% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #19/48
  • PHOTO Luxomni Main
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Luxomni Main (0.1 TCR gap)

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A & B Towing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows A & B Towing averages 2.0 TCR (44% of the Emergency road services (i.e., tow service) BLS benchmark).

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

A & B Towing TCR series: 2017=6 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · BLS 4.5

Where A & B Towing falls in its industry

157 Emergency road services (i.e., establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 48 Emergency road services (i.e., employers in California.

A & B Towing (26 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate A & B Towing
A & B Towing (26 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 employees and a TCR of 5.3

A & B Towing has fewer employees than the Emergency road services (i.e., tow servi median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 6.0 3.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488410 · CA · Costa Mesa

157 Emergency road services (i.e., tow service) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 185 employers in Costa Mesa, 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 Luxomni Main 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lenz, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mike's Towing Service Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bob Holzer Automotive - SB 1.9 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 PACIFIC AMPHITHEATER 863 FTE
CITY-NEAR OC Fair & Event Center 861 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Costa Mesa 670 FTE
CITY-NEAR PACWEST Security Services 567 FTE
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0027 0251 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR St Meinrad 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Logan Service Center 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 100 Welday Ave 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4210 Cumming Ga Lbm 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tn 241 West Summer Str 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE 717 Bennett Rd 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE 195 Leonardville Rd 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.