Machine shops · California

A&R Engineering Co., Inc.

Carson, CA · ~84 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

A&R Engineering Co., Inc. runs at 503% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade F.

A&R Engineering Co., Inc.: 16.6 TCR = 503% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

A&R Engineering Co., Inc. safety composite

A&R Engineering Co., Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

−28.2

2017→2020

A&R Engineering Co., Inc. injury rate improved

A&R Engineering Co., Inc.'s TCR fell 28.2 from 30.7 in 2017 to 2.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 30.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=30.7 · 2020=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Carson, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.6 · 503% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #122/126
  • PHOTO Cosmos, MN
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cosmos, MN (0.1 TCR gap)

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A&R Engineering Co., Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows A&R Engineering Co., Inc. averages 16.6 TCR (503% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

A&R Engineering Co., Inc. TCR series: 2017=30.7 · 2020=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where A&R Engineering Co., Inc. falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 1% 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 #122 safest of 126 Machine shops employers in California.

A&R Engineering Co., Inc. (84 employees, TCR 16.6) 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate A&R Engineering Co., Inc.
A&R Engineering Co., Inc. (84 employees, TCR 16.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

A&R Engineering Co., Inc. has more employees than the Machine shops 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
2020 2.5 2.5 2 0 0
2017 30.7 30.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · CA · Carson

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 236 employers in Carson, 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 Cosmos, MN 16.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR JNB Machinery LLC 16.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kirk Precision Machining, LLC 16.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rotom Inc. dba I.M.S. 17.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE montalvo farms 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hansen Custom Farming, LLC 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hilarides Dairy 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE McIntyre Labor Service, LLC. 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR Centric Parts (PEO) - Carson 1,190 FTE
CITY-NEAR Los Angeles Refinery Carson 1,083 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMPAM Parks Mechanical 965 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Carson 755 FTE
NAT-TCR Service / Bird Crew 16.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Caribe Recycling Corp. 16.6 TCR
NAT-TCR OceanView at Falmouth 16.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Police & Animal Control 16.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Parkview Learning Center 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mercedes Benz of Lancaster 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Generation Fossil Greene County Steam Plant 84 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: 2020, 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.