Exhaust and tail pipes, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · California

Car Sound Exhaust Systems

Oceanside, CA · ~295 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Car Sound Exhaust Systems runs at 102% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Exhaust and tail pipes, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Car Sound Exhaust Systems: 5.5 TCR = 102% of Exhaust and tail pipes, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Car Sound Exhaust Systems safety composite

Car Sound Exhaust Systems scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

−6.3

2020→2023

Car Sound Exhaust Systems injury rate improved

Car Sound Exhaust Systems's TCR fell 6.3 from 8.9 in 2020 to 2.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=8.9 · 2021=6.9 · 2022=3.7 · 2023=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336390 · Oceanside, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 5.5 · 102% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #18/29
  • PHOTO Wheel Pros AFW 1054
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 58 inj
  • SIZE ~295 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wheel Pros AFW 1054 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Car Sound Exhaust Systems in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Car Sound Exhaust Systems averages 5.5 TCR (102% of the Exhaust and tail pipes, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Car Sound Exhaust Systems TCR series: 2020=8.9 · 2021=6.9 · 2022=3.7 · 2023=2.6 · BLS 5.4

Where Car Sound Exhaust Systems falls in its industry

772 Exhaust and tail pipes, automo establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

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 29 Exhaust and tail pipes, automo employers in California.

Car Sound Exhaust Systems (295 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Car Sound Exhaust Systems
Car Sound Exhaust Systems (295 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Car Sound Exhaust Systems has more employees than the Exhaust and tail pipes, automotive, truc median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 2.6 2.3 9 0 0
2022 3.7 2.5 13 0 0
2021 6.9 5.0 22 4 0
2020 8.9 7.5 14 17 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336390 · CA · Oceanside

772 Exhaust and tail pipes, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 164 employers in Oceanside, 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 Wheel Pros AFW 1054 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Purem by Eberspaecher Louisville 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Illinois Manufacturing Co, Cim-Tek Filtration 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant Eight 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Aera Belridge 295 FTE
STATE-SIZE FDD SOCAL North - COI North (Alta Dena) 295 FTE
STATE-SIZE Diagnostics : Beckman Coulter - Sacramento 295 FTE
STATE-SIZE Scholle IPN MER 295 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Oceanside 1,179 FTE
CITY-NEAR USPH - Oceanside Genentech 593 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-ZOCE 507 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Seabird - A Destination Hotel 474 FTE
NAT-TCR Thermal Engineering of Arizona 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Harold White Lumber, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lenzner Coach Lines 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ron Clark Construction 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Early Child Education Center 295 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seoyon E Hwa Interior Systems Alabama, LLC. 295 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Grand Building - Dhhs 295 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eldora Enterprises, LLC 295 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, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.