Office equipment merchant wholesalers · California

BIC Lake Forest, CA

Lake Forest, CA · ~17 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

BIC Lake Forest, CA runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Office equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

BIC Lake Forest, CA: 1.2 TCR = 56% of Office equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BIC Lake Forest, CA safety composite

BIC Lake Forest, CA scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.7

2019→2024

BIC Lake Forest, CA injury rate improved

BIC Lake Forest, CA's TCR fell 2.7 from 2.7 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 4.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=2.7 · 2020=4.7 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423420 · Lake Forest, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.2 · 56% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #18/61
  • PHOTO Pearson Kelly Techno…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pearson Kelly Technology (0.0 TCR gap)

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BIC Lake Forest, CA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows BIC Lake Forest, CA averages 1.2 TCR (56% of the Office equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

BIC Lake Forest, CA TCR series: 2019=2.7 · 2020=4.7 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where BIC Lake Forest, CA falls in its industry

416 Office equipment merchant whol establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 61 Office equipment merchant whol employers in California.

BIC Lake Forest, CA (17 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.7 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate BIC Lake Forest, CA
BIC Lake Forest, CA (17 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.7

BIC Lake Forest, CA has fewer employees than the Office equipment merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 4.7 0.0 0 1 0
2019 2.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423420 · CA · Lake Forest

416 Office equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 90 employers in Lake Forest, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Pearson Kelly Technology 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CO.CENTE.8 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR NV.HENDE.9 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1208 1208-TAMPA,FL-8701 FLORIDA MINING BLVD 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE HM Clause - Dixon Research Station 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Laub Ranches Inc 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sherwood Equipment Inc 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Barton Ranch, Inc. 17 FTE
CITY-NEAR Panasonic Avionics Corporation 2,047 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARB, Inc. 1,334 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spectrum Brands, Lake Forest 598 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASSA ABLOY Americas Residential, Inc., Lake Forest 594 FTE
NAT-TCR 1004-41 GoJet STL Flight Operations 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR O'Neal Steel Incorporated_Ft. Wayne 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Brook & Whittle, Ltd. - St. Louis 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Insituform Technologies USA LLC - Bridgeton 1.2 TCR

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, 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.