Fatty acids (e.g., margaric, oleic, stearic) manufacturing · California

Checkerspot Berkeley

Berkeley, CA · ~23 workers · 2 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

Checkerspot Berkeley runs at 69% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Fatty acids (e.g., margaric, oleic, stearic) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Checkerspot Berkeley: 2.3 TCR = 69% of Fatty acids (e.g., margaric, oleic, stearic) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Checkerspot Berkeley safety composite

Checkerspot Berkeley scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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).

D

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

−4.6

2019→2020

Checkerspot Berkeley injury rate improved

Checkerspot Berkeley's TCR fell 4.6 from 4.6 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.6 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.6 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325199 · Berkeley, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 69% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/17
  • PHOTO SynQuest Laboratorie…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SynQuest Laboratories Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Checkerspot Berkeley in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Checkerspot Berkeley averages 2.3 TCR (69% of the Fatty acids (e.g., margaric, oleic, stearic) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Checkerspot Berkeley TCR series: 2019=4.6 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Checkerspot Berkeley falls in its industry

552 Fatty acids (e.g., margaric, o establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 17 Fatty acids (e.g., margaric, o employers in California.

Checkerspot Berkeley (23 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Checkerspot Berkeley
Checkerspot Berkeley (23 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Checkerspot Berkeley has fewer employees than the Fatty acids (e.g., margaric, oleic, stea median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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 4.6 4.6 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325199 · CA · Berkeley

552 Fatty acids (e.g., margaric, oleic, stearic) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 120 employers in Berkeley, 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 SynQuest Laboratories Inc 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vanderbilt Chemicals, LLC Murray Division 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Delta Energy LLC 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR DanChem Technologies, Inc 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE James Diedrich Farms 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-Fanucchi Farms,LLC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE KAN2 - 04 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kyer Farms 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Berkeley 22,120 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alta Bates Summit Medical Center (213-ABH) 1,998 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Bay Hospitals (30391) 1,917 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berkeley, CA 1,106 FTE
NAT-TCR VARICH-OPI-RICHMOND 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Christus SPOHN - South 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Marjac Ventures Shawnee, LLC 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Grace Label 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tim Hortons #9018 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Helena HA 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kamps Potterville 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE WDS Savannah 23 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.