Instruments, mechanical microsurgical, manufacturing · California

Bear Down Brands, LLC

Santa Ana, CA · ~108 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bear Down Brands, LLC runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Instruments, mechanical microsurgical, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Bear Down Brands, LLC: 5.3 TCR = 159% of Instruments, mechanical microsurgical, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bear Down Brands, LLC safety composite

Bear Down Brands, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Bear Down Brands, LLC: 2.6 → 7.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.16× in 2024

Bear Down Brands, LLC's TCR rose 5.0 from 2.6 in 2021 to 7.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339112 · Santa Ana, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 159% of ind

  • DART 6.1 DART
  • RANK #101/107
  • PHOTO Bates Industries
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~108 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bates Industries (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bear Down Brands, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bear Down Brands, LLC averages 5.3 TCR (159% of the Instruments, mechanical microsurgical, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bear Down Brands, LLC TCR series: 2021=2.6 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=8.3 · 2024=7.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Bear Down Brands, LLC falls in its industry

741 Instruments, mechanical micros establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #101 safest of 107 Instruments, mechanical micros employers in California.

Bear Down Brands, LLC (108 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 174 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 02,0004,0006,0008,000 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate Bear Down Brands, LLC
Bear Down Brands, LLC (108 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 174 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Bear Down Brands, LLC has fewer employees than the Instruments, mechanical microsurgical, m median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2024 7.6 6.1 10 0 0
2023 8.3 5.8 10 0 0
2022 2.5 0.0 3 0 0
2021 2.6 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339112 · CA · Santa Ana

741 Instruments, mechanical microsurgical, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 492 employers in Santa Ana, 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 Bates Industries 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Biomerics LLC 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Resolution Medical, LLC 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 04961900-00W002 MEDICAL MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES, LLC 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jazmine Ag Labor Services, Inc 108 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harris Farms Inc 108 FTE
STATE-SIZE Superior Cattle Feeders, LLC 108 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rainbow Farms 108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Think Together 2,496 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Santa Ana 1,472 FTE
CITY-NEAR Orange County/Los Angeles 1,072 FTE
CITY-NEAR 056937-SANTA ANA CA P&DC 920 FTE
NAT-TCR Chicago Dryer Co 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 5049 - Nashville 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR East Coast Lumber & Building Supply Company Co., LLC. 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Lake Seminole Square 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Paramount Senior Living at Peters Township 108 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marriott Hotel & Golf Club at Champions Circle 108 FTE
NAT-SIZE NHC Health Care Kennett 108 FTE
NAT-SIZE Leviat - Converse 108 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. 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.