Carpentry, framing · California

Circle M Contractors

Rancho Santa Margarita, CA · ~574 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Circle M Contractors runs at 586% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Carpentry, framing workplace, earning a grade F.

Circle M Contractors: 16.4 TCR = 586% of Carpentry, framing BLS 2.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Circle M Contractors safety composite

Circle M Contractors scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

−9.9

2017→2024

Circle M Contractors injury rate improved

Circle M Contractors's TCR fell 9.9 from 23.6 in 2017 to 13.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 23.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=23.6 · 2018=20.7 · 2019=14.1 · 2020=15.5 · 2022=15.8 · 2023=11.7 · 2024=13.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238130 · Rancho Santa Margarita, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 16.4 · 586% of ind

  • DART 9.7 DART
  • RANK #93/99
  • PHOTO Advanced Constructio…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 458 inj
  • SIZE ~574 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Advanced Construction Southwest of CA, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Circle M Contractors in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Circle M Contractors averages 16.4 TCR (586% of the Carpentry, framing BLS benchmark).

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

Circle M Contractors TCR series: 2017=23.6 · 2018=20.7 · 2019=14.1 · 2020=15.5 · 2022=15.8 · 2023=11.7 · 2024=13.7 · BLS 2.8

Where Circle M Contractors falls in its industry

387 Carpentry, framing establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #93 safest of 99 Carpentry, framing employers in California.

Circle M Contractors (574 employees, TCR 16.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Circle M Contractors
Circle M Contractors (574 employees, TCR 16.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Circle M Contractors has more employees than the Carpentry, framing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2024 13.7 9.7 52 0 0
2023 11.7 8.2 37 0 0
2022 15.8 10.6 66 1 0
2020 15.5 11.7 53 0 0
2019 14.1 10.8 48 0 0
2018 20.7 17.3 103 0 0
2017 23.6 16.0 99 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238130 · CA · Rancho Santa Margarita

387 Carpentry, framing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 32 employers in Rancho Santa Margarita, 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 Advanced Construction Southwest of CA, Inc. 16.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Furtmann Bros LLC 16.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Oak Enterprises Inc 16.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ft. Myers Field 16.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 31 574 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forty Niners Football Company LLC 574 FTE
STATE-SIZE J&M LABOR SERVICE, INC 573 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maruchan Laguna 575 FTE
CITY-NEAR Applied Medical 4,417 FTE
CITY-NEAR O'Connell Landscape Maintenance 1,224 FTE
CITY-NEAR Control Components Inc 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR IMI Process Automation 236 FTE
NAT-TCR Apaca Moving & Storage 16.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Larson Construction Co Inc 16.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 11720 Providence 16.4 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Claire HealthCare 16.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE First Quality Tissue, LLC. 574 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tiara Yachts 574 FTE
NAT-SIZE Detroit Refinery 574 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Service Center 574 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, 2020, 2019, 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.