Fiberglass insulation products manufacturing · California

Chowchilla

Chowchilla, CA · ~152 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chowchilla runs at 261% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fiberglass insulation products manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Chowchilla: 8.6 TCR = 261% of Fiberglass insulation products manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chowchilla safety composite

Chowchilla scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

−32.7

2016→2024

Chowchilla injury rate improved

Chowchilla's TCR fell 32.7 from 40.4 in 2016 to 7.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 40.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=40.4 · 2017=2.8 · 2018=4.4 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=7.7 · 2023=9.8 · 2024=7.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327993 · Chowchilla, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 261% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Isolatek -Huntinton
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 65 inj
  • SIZE ~152 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Isolatek -Huntinton (0.1 TCR gap)

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Chowchilla in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chowchilla averages 8.6 TCR (261% of the Fiberglass insulation products manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Chowchilla TCR series: 2016=40.4 · 2017=2.8 · 2018=4.4 · 2019=0 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=7.7 · 2023=9.8 · 2024=7.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Chowchilla falls in its industry

101 Fiberglass insulation products establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Fiberglass insulation products employers in California.

Chowchilla (152 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 126 employees and a TCR of 2.2 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 0200400600800 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Chowchilla
Chowchilla (152 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 126 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Chowchilla has more employees than the Fiberglass insulation products manufactu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.2. 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
2024 7.7 4.3 9 7 0
2023 9.8 4.9 11 9 0
2022 7.7 6.6 14 0 0
2021 2.4 2.4 4 0 0
2020 2.3 1.1 3 1 0
2019 0.0 0.0 1 0 0
2018 4.4 0.6 2 6 0
2017 2.8 0.0 1 4 0
2016 40.4 30.3 20 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327993 · CA · Chowchilla

101 Fiberglass insulation products manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 36 employers in Chowchilla, 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 Isolatek -Huntinton 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 7 Insul-Courtic Corp 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harbison Walker International 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE LangeTwins Inc. 152 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sorrento Berry Farms, LLC - Lompoc 152 FTE
STATE-SIZE MT. VIEW PRODUCTION 152 FTE
STATE-SIZE MATEOS LABOR SERVICE INC. 152 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valley State Prision -- Inmates 1,438 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pacific Orchard Development Inc 679 FTE
CITY-NEAR AgriLand Farming Co. Inc. 275 FTE
CITY-NEAR Guerrero Labor Contractor 238 FTE
NAT-TCR The Galesburg Sanitary District 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR S03373 - Commercial Disposal 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Grand View Dairy Farm, Inc. 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR JSP - Jackson 1 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Franz Witte Landscape Contracting, Inc. 152 FTE
NAT-SIZE Potato Products of Idaho 152 FTE
NAT-SIZE Air Products and Chemicals Inc.- St. Louis Facility 152 FTE
NAT-SIZE Durham 152 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.