Cutting dies, metalworking, manufacturing · California

Ascent Aerospace, LLC

Irvine, CA · ~38 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ascent Aerospace, LLC runs at 27% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Cutting dies, metalworking, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Ascent Aerospace, LLC: 0.9 TCR = 27% of Cutting dies, metalworking, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ascent Aerospace, LLC safety composite

Ascent Aerospace, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

Ascent Aerospace, LLC: 2.0 → 2.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.4 TCR · DART/TCR 2.72× in 2024

Ascent Aerospace, LLC's TCR rose 0.4 from 2.0 in 2020 to 2.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333514 · Irvine, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 27% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #1/9
  • PHOTO Wisconsin Metal Part…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wisconsin Metal Parts, Inc. - BM (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ascent Aerospace, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ascent Aerospace, LLC averages 0.9 TCR (27% of the Cutting dies, metalworking, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ascent Aerospace, LLC TCR series: 2020=2 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Ascent Aerospace, LLC falls in its industry

387 Cutting dies, metalworking, ma establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 9 Cutting dies, metalworking, ma employers in California.

Ascent Aerospace, LLC (38 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ascent Aerospace, LLC
Ascent Aerospace, LLC (38 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Ascent Aerospace, LLC has fewer employees than the Cutting dies, metalworking, manufacturin median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.0 2.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333514 · CA · Irvine

387 Cutting dies, metalworking, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 622 employers in Irvine, 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 Wisconsin Metal Parts, Inc. - BM 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Honda Engineering N America 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Genesis2016 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR MN17-NTE-NTE 17 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE CAL-O SHIPPING 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE GAR & S Farm Labor Services, Inc. 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Supreme Almonds of California, Inc. 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bays Ranch Inc 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Irvine 16,029 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-10 4,926 FTE
CITY-NEAR Edwards Lifesciences 4,189 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johnson and Johnson MDD CSS Irvine 3,775 FTE
NAT-TCR Md Sc 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC - 023 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR International Paper - SpaceKraft (Voyager) 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 042k - South Austin Tx Rntl 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Johnson-Melloh Soluntions LLC 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE PCSI Location 690 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zampell Refractories Inc. Florida Division 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE OFD 38 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, 2020. 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.