Flavoring pastes, powders, and syrups for soft drink manufacturing · California

Adams

Los Angeles, CA · ~66 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Adams runs at 196% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Flavoring pastes, powders, and syrups for soft drink manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Adams: 8.1 TCR = 196% of Flavoring pastes, powders, and syrups for soft drink manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Adams safety composite

Adams scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−2.0

2021→2024

Adams injury rate improved

Adams's TCR fell 2.0 from 10.9 in 2021 to 8.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 10.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=10.9 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=9.0 · 2024=8.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311930 · Los Angeles, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.1 · 196% of ind

  • DART 8.8 DART
  • RANK #9/10
  • PHOTO EAGLE BEVERAGE AND A…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: EAGLE BEVERAGE AND ACCESORIES (0.0 TCR gap)

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Adams in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Adams averages 8.1 TCR (196% of the Flavoring pastes, powders, and syrups for soft drink manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Adams TCR series: 2021=10.9 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=9 · 2024=8.8 · BLS 4.1

Where Adams falls in its industry

96 Flavoring pastes, powders, and establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 10 Flavoring pastes, powders, and employers in California.

Adams (66 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Adams
Adams (66 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Adams has fewer employees than the Flavoring pastes, powders, and syrups fo median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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 8.8 8.8 4 0 0
2023 9.0 9.0 6 0 0
2022 3.5 3.5 2 0 0
2021 10.9 10.9 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311930 · CA · Los Angeles

96 Flavoring pastes, powders, and syrups for soft drink manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 2,064 employers in Los Angeles, 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 EAGLE BEVERAGE AND ACCESORIES 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sea Breeze Fruit Flavors Inc 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Agrana Fruit US, Inc. Lysander 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR D.D. Williamson & CO., LLC. 8.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nuseed Americas, Inc., West Sacramento Innovation Center 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE ORGANIC BUNCH HARVESTING 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Navco Berry Harvest 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE kings orchards, llc 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR Live Nation Worldwide, Inc. 50,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Los Angeles 40,333 FTE
CITY-NEAR LADWP 11,717 FTE
CITY-NEAR Los Angeles Department of Water and Power 10,346 FTE
NAT-TCR Welsh Mountain Home 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR John Deere Seeding Group Valley City 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR PAM Specialty Hospital of New Orleans 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sterling Heights High Schools 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Calloway's Nursery, Inc. Corp Office 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE A. Martini & Co., Inc. 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metheny Concrete Products, Inc. 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jenny Lind School 66 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, 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.