Bonded warehousing, refrigerated · California

Better Cooling Inc.

Santa Maria, CA · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Better Cooling Inc. runs at 52% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Bonded warehousing, refrigerated workplace, earning a grade B.

Better Cooling Inc.: 3.0 TCR = 52% of Bonded warehousing, refrigerated BLS 5.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Better Cooling Inc. safety composite

Better Cooling Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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

−6.1

2023→2024

Better Cooling Inc. injury rate improved

Better Cooling Inc.'s TCR fell 6.1 from 6.1 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.1 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493120 · Santa Maria, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.0 · 52% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #40/125
  • PHOTO USCS- Tulare, CA (So…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: USCS- Tulare, CA (South) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Better Cooling Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Better Cooling Inc. averages 3.0 TCR (52% of the Bonded warehousing, refrigerated BLS benchmark).

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

Better Cooling Inc. TCR series: 2023=6.1 · 2024=0 · BLS 5.8

Where Better Cooling Inc. falls in its industry

1,039 Bonded warehousing, refrigerat establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #40 safest of 125 Bonded warehousing, refrigerat employers in California.

Better Cooling Inc. (20 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Better Cooling Inc.
Better Cooling Inc. (20 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Better Cooling Inc. has fewer employees than the Bonded warehousing, refrigerated median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 6.1 6.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493120 · CA · Santa Maria

1,039 Bonded warehousing, refrigerated 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 USCS- Tulare, CA (South) 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roanoke 3PL 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Agua Mansa-Cross Dock 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Laredo I 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sills Farms, Inc. 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE F A Maggiore & Sons, LLC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE CALMEX CONTRACTING INC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Velvet Antler Ranch LLC 20 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 178 Bethalto 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 145 Westfall Plaza 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Scflo - Florence Center 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Miles Ahead Technology LLC 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gruber Mcneill Contracting, Inc. 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Washington Automated LLC 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sedalia Service Center 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Over the Top Roofing LLC 20 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. 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.