Builder's hardware, metal, manufacturing · California

Crain Cutter Company

Milpitas, CA · ~62 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Crain Cutter Company runs at 319% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Builder's hardware, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Crain Cutter Company: 10.5 TCR = 319% of Builder's hardware, metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Crain Cutter Company safety composite

Crain Cutter Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Crain Cutter Company: 17.5 → 60.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 60.6 TCR · DART/TCR 5.75× in 2019

Crain Cutter Company's TCR rose 43.1 from 17.5 in 2017 to 60.6 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 5.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332510 · Milpitas, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.5 · 319% of ind

  • DART 60.6 DART
  • RANK #11/11
  • PHOTO Flexco Grand Rapids …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Flexco Grand Rapids Main (0.3 TCR gap)

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Crain Cutter Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Crain Cutter Company averages 10.5 TCR (319% of the Builder's hardware, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Crain Cutter Company TCR series: 2017=17.5 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=60.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Crain Cutter Company falls in its industry

189 Builder's hardware, metal, man establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 11 Builder's hardware, metal, man employers in California.

Crain Cutter Company (62 employees, TCR 10.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Crain Cutter Company
Crain Cutter Company (62 employees, TCR 10.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Crain Cutter Company has fewer employees than the Builder's hardware, metal, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2019 60.6 60.6 3 1 0
2018 3.5 1.8 2 0 0
2017 17.5 12.3 5 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332510 · CA · Milpitas

189 Builder's hardware, metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 161 employers in Milpitas, 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 Flexco Grand Rapids Main 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Diamond Spas, Inc. 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR E.R. WAGNER MANUFACTURING CO 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Acme Manufacturing Company, Inc. 9.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Zipper Farms, Inc. 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crain Marketing, Inc. 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maricopa Orchards, LLC 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE WESTLAND ORCHIDS 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 454 2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR California 2,531 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2636-CALIFORNIA, MILPITAS 2,400 FTE
CITY-NEAR 011 SanDisk HQ 1,952 FTE
NAT-TCR 4769-6106-West Elm 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 066 ABC Supply Co., Inc 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR GRS - Milford 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Synergy Community Cooperative - Elk Mound Agronomy 10.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE TNI - Hooks, TX 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Mental Health Center - Conway 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mercury Manufacturing Company 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gb-Hhh1-Spring Arbor Greensboro 62 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: 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.