Manufacturing of Plumbing Fixtures · California

Alton-Machine Shop-Brasstech

Santa Ana, CA · ~43 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Alton-Machine Shop-Brasstech runs at 186% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Manufacturing of Plumbing Fixtures workplace, earning a grade D.

Alton-Machine Shop-Brasstech: 6.1 TCR = 186% of Manufacturing of Plumbing Fixtures BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Alton-Machine Shop-Brasstech safety composite

Alton-Machine Shop-Brasstech scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

2017→2018

Alton-Machine Shop-Brasstech injury rate improved

Alton-Machine Shop-Brasstech's TCR fell 0.5 from 6.4 in 2017 to 5.9 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.4 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=6.4 · 2018=5.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Santa Ana, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 186% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #99/126
  • PHOTO MN01-Bob Inc-Minnesota
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MN01-Bob Inc-Minnesota (0.0 TCR gap)

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Alton-Machine Shop-Brasstech in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Alton-Machine Shop-Brasstech averages 6.1 TCR (186% of the Manufacturing of Plumbing Fixtures BLS benchmark).

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

Alton-Machine Shop-Brasstech TCR series: 2017=6.4 · 2018=5.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Alton-Machine Shop-Brasstech falls in its industry

1,821 Manufacturing of Plumbing Fixt establishments

Safer than 23% 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 #99 safest of 126 Manufacturing of Plumbing Fixt employers in California.

Alton-Machine Shop-Brasstech (43 employees, TCR 6.1) 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 Alton-Machine Shop-Brasstech
Alton-Machine Shop-Brasstech (43 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Alton-Machine Shop-Brasstech has fewer employees than the Manufacturing of Plumbing Fixtures median and a higher 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
2018 5.9 2.0 3 0 0
2017 6.4 6.4 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · CA · Santa Ana

1,821 Manufacturing of Plumbing Fixtures employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 492 employers in Santa Ana, 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 MN01-Bob Inc-Minnesota 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carolina Precision Technologies - Mooresville 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Code Welding & Mfg. Inc 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arrowhead Machining, Inc 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Robert & Sandra Garcia Farming Partnership 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE ARVIN ADMINISTRATION 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Donald W Beeman 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE KG Vineyard Management, LLC 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR Think Together 2,496 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Santa Ana 1,472 FTE
CITY-NEAR Orange County/Los Angeles 1,072 FTE
CITY-NEAR 056937-SANTA ANA CA P&DC 920 FTE
NAT-TCR Tube Mill 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR PHL - Airport United Airlines Offices 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Payette (Idpay) 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Joseph (Mostj) 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brookdale North Ogden 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chromalloy Middletown 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Bend Hospice 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delta Plastics Altheimer 43 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: 2018, 2017. 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.