Sewing threads manufacturing · California

Design

Irvine, CA · ~293 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Design runs at 73% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Sewing threads manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Design: 2.4 TCR = 73% of Sewing threads manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Design safety composite

Design scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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)
D 2.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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%).

Design held a steady TCR band

Design's TCR held near 0.3 from 1.8 in 2017 to 1.5 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.9 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.8 · 2018=3.9 · 2019=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313110 · Irvine, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 73% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Frontier Yarns Plant 3
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~293 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Frontier Yarns Plant 3 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Design in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Design averages 2.4 TCR (73% of the Sewing threads manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Design TCR series: 2017=1.8 · 2018=3.9 · 2019=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Design falls in its industry

195 Sewing threads manufacturing establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Sewing threads manufacturing employers in California.

Design (293 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 137 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Design
Design (293 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 137 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Design has more employees than the Sewing threads manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2019 1.5 1.1 4 0 0
2018 3.9 3.5 10 0 0
2017 1.8 1.8 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313110 · CA · Irvine

195 Sewing threads manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 622 employers in Irvine, 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 Frontier Yarns Plant 3 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coats and Clark 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sika-Chattanooga 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Parkdale America LLC Plant 26 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE JVKS Harvest Solutions, LLC dba: AgSocio 293 FTE
STATE-SIZE kdc/ one Sunburst 293 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hygiena 293 FTE
STATE-SIZE RGH Enterprises, LLC. 293 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Irvine 16,029 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-10 4,926 FTE
CITY-NEAR Edwards Lifesciences 4,189 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johnson and Johnson MDD CSS Irvine 3,775 FTE
NAT-TCR manning iga 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1169 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0017 1986 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR S07288 - WM of ND Fargo 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Skanska Kiewit - SKK Bayonne Bridge 293 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1354 Boot Road 293 FTE
NAT-SIZE 8029 Corporate Drive 293 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mount Pleasant - 100 Distribution Circle 293 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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