Anodizing metals and metal products for the trade · California

Danco Metal Surfacing

Ontario, CA · ~40 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Danco Metal Surfacing runs at 169% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Anodizing metals and metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade D.

Danco Metal Surfacing: 5.6 TCR = 169% of Anodizing metals and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Danco Metal Surfacing safety composite

Danco Metal Surfacing scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Danco Metal Surfacing: 3.4 → 7.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.92× in 2024

Danco Metal Surfacing's TCR rose 4.3 from 3.4 in 2017 to 7.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332813 · Ontario, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 169% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #51/74
  • PHOTO Precision Plating Co…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Precision Plating Co., Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Danco Metal Surfacing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Danco Metal Surfacing averages 5.6 TCR (169% of the Anodizing metals and metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Danco Metal Surfacing TCR series: 2017=3.4 · 2018=4.2 · 2019=4.9 · 2020=7.8 · 2021=2.9 · 2022=5 · 2023=8.8 · 2024=7.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Danco Metal Surfacing falls in its industry

585 Anodizing metals and metal pro establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #51 safest of 74 Anodizing metals and metal pro employers in California.

Danco Metal Surfacing (40 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Danco Metal Surfacing
Danco Metal Surfacing (40 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Danco Metal Surfacing has fewer employees than the Anodizing metals and metal products for median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 5.1 3 0 0
2023 8.8 8.8 3 0 0
2022 5.0 5.0 1 1 0
2021 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2020 7.8 5.2 3 0 0
2019 4.9 4.9 2 0 0
2018 4.2 4.2 2 0 0
2017 3.4 3.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332813 · CA · Ontario

585 Anodizing metals and metal products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 599 employers in Ontario, 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 Precision Plating Co., Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Har-Conn Chrome Company 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR ATI Aviation Services, LLC. 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mueller Corporation 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Stackhouse Brothers 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE PISTACHIO HARVESTING, INC. 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Watsonville/San Juan Bautista 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gomez Growers 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prime Healthcare Services Inc. Location: St. Mary's, Passaic LLC 46-3499370 (HP29) 10,997 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAONA - ONTARIO HUB 4,372 FTE
CITY-NEAR ONTARIO HUB (CAONA) 3,354 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atlantic Solutions Group Inc, Inc. DBA Empire Workforce Solutions 3,240 FTE
NAT-TCR PSI Urethanes, Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR E. Smith Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR SportChassis LLC 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Regency Hospital of Columbus, LLC (d/b/a Select Specialty Hospital - Columbus East) 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE JBI Construction Inc. 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Varex Imaging, Liverpool 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Town of South Windsor - Town Garage 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE 235 Washington Street 40 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. 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.