Cold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished · California

Berkeley Forge & Tool, Inc

Berkeley, CA · ~100 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Berkeley Forge & Tool, Inc runs at 274% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished workplace, earning a grade F.

Berkeley Forge & Tool, Inc: 9.0 TCR = 274% of Cold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Berkeley Forge & Tool, Inc safety composite

Berkeley Forge & Tool, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

12/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

Berkeley Forge & Tool, Inc: 7.7 → 10.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 10.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.8× in 2018

Berkeley Forge & Tool, Inc's TCR rose 2.7 from 7.7 in 2017 to 10.4 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332111 · Berkeley, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 274% of ind

  • DART 7.3 DART
  • RANK #11/15
  • PHOTO RDF&P
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~100 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RDF&P (0.0 TCR gap)

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Berkeley Forge & Tool, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Berkeley Forge & Tool, Inc averages 9.0 TCR (274% of the Cold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS benchmark).

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

Berkeley Forge & Tool, Inc TCR series: 2017=7.7 · 2018=10.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Berkeley Forge & Tool, Inc falls in its industry

241 Cold forgings made from purcha establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 15 Cold forgings made from purcha employers in California.

Berkeley Forge & Tool, Inc (100 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 Berkeley Forge & Tool, Inc
Berkeley Forge & Tool, Inc (100 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Berkeley Forge & Tool, Inc has more employees than the Cold forgings made from purchased iron o median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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 10.4 7.3 8 2 1
2017 7.7 7.7 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332111 · CA · Berkeley

241 Cold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 120 employers in Berkeley, 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 RDF&P 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brickham Stamping Co 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Reliable Machine Company 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tekfor, Inc 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE 4Seasons Farms, LLC 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bud of California Cauliflower 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Legacy Growers, LLC. 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE DE CRUZ FLC 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Berkeley 22,120 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alta Bates Summit Medical Center (213-ABH) 1,998 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Bay Hospitals (30391) 1,917 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berkeley, CA 1,106 FTE
NAT-TCR Greendale Forest Nursing & Rehab 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Champion 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Police Department 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Artesia General Hospital 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Flexsteel Industries, Inc 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE 16 - Meriden Terminal 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Baton Rouge Heritage House 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tops #419 100 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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