Permanent mold castings, aluminum, unfinished, manufacturing · California

Buddy Bar Casting, LLC

South Gate, CA · ~121 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buddy Bar Casting, LLC runs at 283% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Permanent mold castings, aluminum, unfinished, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Buddy Bar Casting, LLC: 9.3 TCR = 283% of Permanent mold castings, aluminum, unfinished, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buddy Bar Casting, LLC safety composite

Buddy Bar Casting, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−3.3

2017→2024

Buddy Bar Casting, LLC injury rate improved

Buddy Bar Casting, LLC's TCR fell 3.3 from 12.3 in 2017 to 9.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 13.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=12.3 · 2019=7.8 · 2020=6.3 · 2021=13.9 · 2022=7.4 · 2023=8.8 · 2024=9.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331524 · South Gate, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.3 · 283% of ind

  • DART 9.0 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO Mahoney Foundries INC
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 75 inj
  • SIZE ~121 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mahoney Foundries INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buddy Bar Casting, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buddy Bar Casting, LLC averages 9.3 TCR (283% of the Permanent mold castings, aluminum, unfinished, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Buddy Bar Casting, LLC TCR series: 2017=12.3 · 2019=7.8 · 2020=6.3 · 2021=13.9 · 2022=7.4 · 2023=8.8 · 2024=9 · BLS 3.3

Where Buddy Bar Casting, LLC falls in its industry

156 Permanent mold castings, alumi establishments

Safer than 31% 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 #5 safest of 7 Permanent mold castings, alumi employers in California.

Buddy Bar Casting, LLC (121 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Buddy Bar Casting, LLC
Buddy Bar Casting, LLC (121 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 7.0

Buddy Bar Casting, LLC has more employees than the Permanent mold castings, aluminum, unfin median and a higher 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
2024 9.0 9.0 7 0 0
2023 8.8 8.8 7 0 0
2022 7.4 7.4 9 0 0
2021 13.9 13.9 19 0 0
2020 6.3 4.5 7 0 0
2019 7.8 6.2 10 0 0
2017 12.3 5.4 16 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331524 · CA · South Gate

156 Permanent mold castings, aluminum, unfinished, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 75 employers in South Gate, 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 Mahoney Foundries INC 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cast Metals Technology Union City 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 45 NORTON ST 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Adams and Westlake Ltd 9.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Naumann Ranch 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE Illume Agriculture, LLC 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE Village Nurseries Miramar Yard 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE Collier Road Complex 121 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-027 908 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Gate, CA - 5650 Southern 792 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3180 587 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3180 573 FTE
NAT-TCR Colonial Plastics 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ontario Exteriors,Inc. 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Homewood Suites Orlando FL 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Jewell Electric Inc 9.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Agri-Mark, Inc. 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ortonville Public School District 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trierweiler Construction Supply Co.,Inc. 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shamrock Cabinet & Fixture Corp. 121 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.