Trailer rental or leasing · California

Berchtold Equipment Company-Santa Maria

Santa Maria, CA · ~23 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Berchtold Equipment Company-Santa Maria runs at 520% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Trailer rental or leasing workplace, earning a grade F.

Berchtold Equipment Company-Santa Maria: 7.3 TCR = 520% of Trailer rental or leasing BLS 1.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Berchtold Equipment Company-Santa Maria safety composite

Berchtold Equipment Company-Santa Maria scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.2

2022→2024

Berchtold Equipment Company-Santa Maria injury rate improved

Berchtold Equipment Company-Santa Maria's TCR fell 2.2 from 9.6 in 2022 to 7.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=9.6 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=7.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 532120 · Santa Maria, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 520% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #25/30
  • PHOTO MIAMI NORTH
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MIAMI NORTH (0.0 TCR gap)

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Berchtold Equipment Company-Santa Maria in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Berchtold Equipment Company-Santa Maria averages 7.3 TCR (520% of the Trailer rental or leasing BLS benchmark).

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

Berchtold Equipment Company-Santa Maria TCR series: 2022=9.6 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=7.3 · BLS 1.4

Where Berchtold Equipment Company-Santa Maria falls in its industry

211 Trailer rental or leasing establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 30 Trailer rental or leasing employers in California.

Berchtold Equipment Company-Santa Maria (23 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 020406080 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Berchtold Equipment Company-Santa Maria
Berchtold Equipment Company-Santa Maria (23 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Berchtold Equipment Company-Santa Maria has fewer employees than the Trailer rental or leasing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 7.3 0.0 2 0 0
2023 4.9 4.9 1 0 0
2022 9.6 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

532120 · CA · Santa Maria

211 Trailer rental or leasing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 280 employers in Santa Maria, 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 MIAMI NORTH 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR WEST HAVEN 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MIAMI WEST 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SOUTH LAS VEGAS 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE James Diedrich Farms 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-Fanucchi Farms,LLC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE KAN2 - 04 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kyer Farms 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rancho Nuevo Harvesting, Inc. 2,290 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030364 2,110 FTE
CITY-NEAR 64030364-364001 MARIAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 2,074 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marian Regional Medical Center 2,021 FTE
NAT-TCR ICF Goldfield 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Wren Manufacturing Inc - 1055 Hanover Street 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR International Wholesale Tile, LLC 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mayer Bros Barker 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE DTA 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pensacola - 38 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Praet Tool & Engineering 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE FedEx Supply Chain Sun Chemical 23 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. 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.