Drop forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished · California

Carlton Forge Works

Paramount, CA · ~288 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Carlton Forge Works runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Drop forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished workplace, earning a grade B.

Carlton Forge Works: 1.8 TCR = 55% of Drop forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carlton Forge Works safety composite

Carlton Forge Works scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

−2.4

2017→2024

Carlton Forge Works injury rate improved

Carlton Forge Works's TCR fell 2.4 from 3.2 in 2017 to 0.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.2 · 2018=3.4 · 2021=0.5 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332111 · Paramount, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 55% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/15
  • PHOTO Forged Components, I…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 37 inj
  • SIZE ~288 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Forged Components, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Carlton Forge Works in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carlton Forge Works averages 1.8 TCR (55% of the Drop forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS benchmark).

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

Carlton Forge Works TCR series: 2017=3.2 · 2018=3.4 · 2021=0.5 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=0.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Carlton Forge Works falls in its industry

241 Drop forgings made from purcha establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 15 Drop forgings made from purcha employers in California.

Carlton Forge Works (288 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Carlton Forge Works
Carlton Forge Works (288 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Carlton Forge Works has more employees than the Drop forgings made from purchased iron o median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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 0.8 0.0 2 0 0
2023 1.1 0.4 3 0 0
2021 0.5 0.0 1 0 0
2018 3.4 0.8 17 0 0
2017 3.2 1.1 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332111 · CA · Paramount

241 Drop forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 77 employers in Paramount, 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 Forged Components, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shultz Steel LLC 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Impaction 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ATI Forged Products - Cudahy Operations 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE North Coast Vineyard Management Inc 288 FTE
STATE-SIZE Famarock dba Rockenwagner 288 FTE
STATE-SIZE HIMLF - Lake Forest 288 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anheuser-Busch Fairfield Brewery 288 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-052 909 FTE
CITY-NEAR Total American Investment Company-Corporate 907 FTE
CITY-NEAR Total-Western, Inc. 449 FTE
CITY-NEAR Weber Metals Inc. 429 FTE
NAT-TCR Zeigler Racine Hyundai 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR NADAP, Inc 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR SRC Electrical 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR ATL 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wichita Service Center 288 FTE
NAT-SIZE True Up Companies LLC - LCH 288 FTE
NAT-SIZE SO Central CT Regional Water Auth 288 FTE
NAT-SIZE Topeka 288 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, 2021, 2018, 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.