Spices and spice mix manufacturing · California

BDS Natural Products

Carson, CA · ~35 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.0
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

BDS Natural Products runs at 244% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Spices and spice mix manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

BDS Natural Products: 10.0 TCR = 244% of Spices and spice mix manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BDS Natural Products safety composite

BDS Natural Products scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

BDS Natural Products: 8.4 → 11.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 11.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.16× in 2018

BDS Natural Products's TCR rose 3.1 from 8.4 in 2017 to 11.6 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311942 · Carson, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.0 · 244% of ind

  • DART 11.6 DART
  • RANK #16/19
  • PHOTO Fargo Plant
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fargo Plant (0.3 TCR gap)

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BDS Natural Products in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows BDS Natural Products averages 10.0 TCR (244% of the Spices and spice mix manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

BDS Natural Products TCR series: 2017=8.4 · 2018=11.6 · BLS 4.1

Where BDS Natural Products falls in its industry

200 Spices and spice mix manufactu establishments

Safer than 4% 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 #16 safest of 19 Spices and spice mix manufactu employers in California.

BDS Natural Products (35 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate BDS Natural Products
BDS Natural Products (35 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5

BDS Natural Products has fewer employees than the Spices and spice mix manufacturing 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
2018 11.6 11.6 4 0 0
2017 8.4 8.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311942 · CA · Carson

200 Spices and spice mix manufacturing 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 Fargo Plant 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rocky Mountain Spice Company 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kerry-Rhinelander 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shank's Extracts, LLC 10.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE CONSTRUCTION FABRICATION/CARPENTRY/PAINTING/ELECTRIC/PIPE 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meek Ranches LLC 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dresick Farms, Inc. - Farm 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wolfsen Inc 35 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 Honda East Liberty Plant (Marysville) 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 531 ABC Supply Co., inc. 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sysco of Portland 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 4795-PD-MGM-MONTGOMERY-PD 10.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Toyota Boshoku Mississippi-Alabama 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oak Hill Grants Supermarket 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Elizabethtown - Owensboro Distribution 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Conyers Service Center 35 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.