Trusses, wood roof or floor, manufacturing · California

Better Built Truss, LLC

Ripon, CA · ~154 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Better Built Truss, LLC runs at 144% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Trusses, wood roof or floor, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Better Built Truss, LLC: 4.8 TCR = 144% of Trusses, wood roof or floor, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Better Built Truss, LLC safety composite

Better Built Truss, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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

Better Built Truss, LLC: 3.6 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 6.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.32× in 2023

Better Built Truss, LLC's TCR rose 1.0 from 3.6 in 2019 to 4.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321214 · Ripon, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 144% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #6/20
  • PHOTO Component plant
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~154 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Component plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Better Built Truss, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Better Built Truss, LLC averages 4.8 TCR (144% of the Trusses, wood roof or floor, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Better Built Truss, LLC TCR series: 2019=3.6 · 2020=4.3 · 2022=6.6 · 2023=4.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Better Built Truss, LLC falls in its industry

421 Trusses, wood roof or floor, m establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 20 Trusses, wood roof or floor, m employers in California.

Better Built Truss, LLC (154 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 7.0 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Better Built Truss, LLC
Better Built Truss, LLC (154 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 7.0

Better Built Truss, LLC has more employees than the Trusses, wood roof or floor, manufacturi median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.0. 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
2023 4.5 1.5 6 0 0
2022 6.6 4.0 10 0 0
2020 4.3 3.1 7 0 0
2019 3.6 1.8 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321214 · CA · Ripon

421 Trusses, wood roof or floor, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 27 employers in Ripon, 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 Component plant 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tindell's Truss Plant 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4192-00051484-2905 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fontana Wood Products 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sun Pacific Shippers | Euclid Packinghouse 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE A.M. AG ENTERPRISE, INC. 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE AUBURN SERVICE CENTER 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE Van Nuys District HDQ 154 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 346 779 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bethany Home Society of San Joaq 276 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ripon Winery 264 FTE
CITY-NEAR Burkett's Pool Plastering Inc 227 FTE
NAT-TCR James Built 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR West Monroe, La #00657 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bronx, Ny #00390 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Eversource - Hartford AWC 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE W.F. North, Inc., dba Brent Brown Toyota 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delaney Telecom, Inc. - BBNS* 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aurora Distribution Center 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE VT - Williston - 687 Marshall Ave - Keurig Green Mountain Inc 154 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: 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019. 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.