Balloons, rubber, manufacturing · California

Central Manufacturing

Fresno, CA · ~28 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Central Manufacturing runs at 69% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Balloons, rubber, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Central Manufacturing: 2.3 TCR = 69% of Balloons, rubber, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Central Manufacturing safety composite

Central Manufacturing scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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%).

Central Manufacturing held a steady TCR band

Central Manufacturing's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=3.2 · 2019=5.9 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326299 · Fresno, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 69% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/14
  • PHOTO Buffalo, NY
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Buffalo, NY (0.0 TCR gap)

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Central Manufacturing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Central Manufacturing averages 2.3 TCR (69% of the Balloons, rubber, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Central Manufacturing TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=3.2 · 2019=5.9 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Central Manufacturing falls in its industry

257 Balloons, rubber, manufacturin establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 14 Balloons, rubber, manufacturin employers in California.

Central Manufacturing (28 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Central Manufacturing
Central Manufacturing (28 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Central Manufacturing has fewer employees than the Balloons, rubber, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 5.9 3.0 2 0 0
2018 3.2 3.2 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326299 · CA · Fresno

257 Balloons, rubber, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 981 employers in Fresno, 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 Buffalo, NY 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vernay Manufacturing, Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quanex IG Systems Inc. DBA Quanex Custom Mixing 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carlisle Syntec - Greenville, IL 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Davis Ranch L.L.C. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steinbeck Country Produce 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harlan Family Ranch 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE KKG Equipment Company, LLC32 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR County of Fresno 7,553 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ag Force LLC 6,430 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Regional Medical Ctr 5,549 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Regional Medical Center 4,921 FTE
NAT-TCR Central Virginia Support Center Headquarters-6301 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR YNG-ODFL 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sloan Duncan 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mactac Kansas City Warehouse 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mid-South Specialties, Inc. 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Iowa Home Care Boone Branch 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE G&R Construction Inc. 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mar Cor Purification - Field Service Technicians 28 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.