Naval ship building · California

Austal USA LLC Sdca

San Diego, CA · ~110 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Austal USA LLC Sdca runs at 64% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Naval ship building workplace, earning a grade B.

Austal USA LLC Sdca: 2.1 TCR = 64% of Naval ship building BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Austal USA LLC Sdca safety composite

Austal USA LLC Sdca scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Austal USA LLC Sdca: 2.0 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.76× in 2024

Austal USA LLC Sdca's TCR rose 2.4 from 2.0 in 2019 to 4.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336611 · San Diego, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 64% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #9/52
  • PHOTO Campbell Transportat…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~110 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Campbell Transportation Company (Georgetown Shipyard) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Austal USA LLC Sdca in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Austal USA LLC Sdca averages 2.1 TCR (64% of the Naval ship building BLS benchmark).

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

Austal USA LLC Sdca TCR series: 2019=2 · 2020=1.9 · 2021=0.9 · 2022=1.5 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Austal USA LLC Sdca falls in its industry

454 Naval ship building establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

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 52 Naval ship building employers in California.

Austal USA LLC Sdca (110 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Austal USA LLC Sdca
Austal USA LLC Sdca (110 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Austal USA LLC Sdca has more employees than the Naval ship building median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 4.3 3.7 7 0 0
2023 2.1 1.6 4 0 0
2022 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2021 0.9 0.9 2 0 0
2020 1.9 1.2 1 2 0
2019 2.0 1.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336611 · CA · San Diego

454 Naval ship building employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 1,979 employers in San Diego, 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 Campbell Transportation Company (Georgetown Shipyard) 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gulf Copper South Yard 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ellicott Dredges, LLC 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR LaShip LLC 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Queen Victoria Farms, LP 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE River Ridge Farms 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE GH Dairy - California 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Braga Ranch, Inc. Soledad 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC San Diego Health 9,310 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Atomics 8,108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health Human Services Agency 6,080 FTE
CITY-NEAR National University 4,955 FTE
NAT-TCR Lincoln Electric Automation Coldwater 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Southaven 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR REV Construction, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Insituform Technologies LLC - Charlton 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE GRR 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coal Valley 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE International Paper - McAllen Container 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Values Into Action Inc 110 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, 2019. 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.