Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade · California

Arnold's Metal Finishing Inc.

Santa Clara, CA · ~4 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Arnold's Metal Finishing Inc. runs at 133% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade workplace, earning a grade D.

Arnold's Metal Finishing Inc.: 4.4 TCR = 133% of Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Arnold's Metal Finishing Inc. safety composite

Arnold's Metal Finishing Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Arnold's Metal Finishing Inc.: 3.6 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.78× in 2024

Arnold's Metal Finishing Inc.'s TCR rose 1.5 from 3.6 in 2023 to 5.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332813 · Santa Clara, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 133% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #37/74
  • PHOTO Electro Fiber Techno…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~4 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Electro Fiber Technologies LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Arnold's Metal Finishing Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Arnold's Metal Finishing Inc. averages 4.4 TCR (133% of the Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Arnold's Metal Finishing Inc. TCR series: 2023=3.6 · 2024=5.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Arnold's Metal Finishing Inc. falls in its industry

585 Electroplating metals and form establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #37 safest of 74 Electroplating metals and form employers in California.

Arnold's Metal Finishing Inc. (4 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Arnold's Metal Finishing Inc.
Arnold's Metal Finishing Inc. (4 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Arnold's Metal Finishing Inc. has fewer employees than the Electroplating metals and formed product median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 5.2 3.4 3 0 0
2023 3.6 3.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332813 · CA · Santa Clara

585 Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 332 employers in Santa Clara, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Electro Fiber Technologies LLC 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Philson, Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Microfinish 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cleanpart East 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rosenmund Ranch 4 FTE
STATE-SIZE VISTA HERMOSA HARVESTING, INC. 4 FTE
STATE-SIZE Qualtech Concrete Inc 4 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arcata 4 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mission Campus 6,222 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pure Storage 5,595 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2032-02120751 3,887 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0206-02620751 3,154 FTE
NAT-TCR Care One at Hanover Township 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Miami Marriott Biscayne Bay 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Palestine 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR The Occasions Group - MN - 0156 4.4 TCR

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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.