Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers · California

Avista Technologies, Inc.

San Marcos, CA · ~59 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Avista Technologies, Inc. runs at 230% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Avista Technologies, Inc.: 5.1 TCR = 230% of Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Avista Technologies, Inc. safety composite

Avista Technologies, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Avista Technologies, Inc.: 0.0 → 7.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 9.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.93× in 2024

Avista Technologies, Inc.'s TCR rose 7.8 from 0.0 in 2018 to 7.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · San Marcos, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.1 · 230% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #59/71
  • PHOTO 6728-00030023-1
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 6728-00030023-1 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Avista Technologies, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Avista Technologies, Inc. averages 5.1 TCR (230% of the Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Avista Technologies, Inc. TCR series: 2018=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=9.8 · 2023=7.7 · 2024=7.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Avista Technologies, Inc. falls in its industry

766 Chemicals (except agriculture) establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #59 safest of 71 Chemicals (except agriculture) employers in California.

Avista Technologies, Inc. (59 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Avista Technologies, Inc.
Avista Technologies, Inc. (59 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Avista Technologies, Inc. has more employees than the Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., au median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 7.8 4.7 5 0 0
2023 7.7 3.1 5 0 0
2022 9.8 0.0 3 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · CA · San Marcos

766 Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 139 employers in San Marcos, 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 6728-00030023-1 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR National City - WestAir Gases and Equipment, Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3575 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Portland Plant 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE DFFF-Salinas 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE LOMA 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.R. AG SOLUTIONS, INC. 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE F&J FERNANDEZ CONTRACTING 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hunter Industries 967 FTE
CITY-NEAR 08180552 SAN MARCOS MEDICAL CENTER 741 FTE
CITY-NEAR CASMR - SAN MARCOS 615 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAN MARCOS (CASMR) 555 FTE
NAT-TCR Georgetown KY 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Prepac LLC 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Action Mailing & Printing Solutions 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Alcoa 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Edgewood Pierre 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brickyard Healthcare Knox Care Center 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fire Department 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE 493010-South Kingston | RI | OST-180 59 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, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.