Construction adhesives (except asphalt, gypsum base) manufacturing · California

Design Polymerics

Santa Ana, CA · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
0.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Design Polymerics runs at 0% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Construction adhesives (except asphalt, gypsum base) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Design Polymerics: 0.0 TCR = 0% of Construction adhesives (except asphalt, gypsum base) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Design Polymerics safety composite

Design Polymerics scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

81/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

Design Polymerics held a steady TCR band

Design Polymerics's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 0.0 TCR.

2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325520 · Santa Ana, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 0.0 · 0% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #0/16
  • PHOTO Ringwood
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ringwood (0.2 TCR gap)

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Design Polymerics in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Design Polymerics averages 0.0 TCR (0% of the Construction adhesives (except asphalt, gypsum base) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Design Polymerics TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Design Polymerics falls in its industry

287 Construction adhesives (except establishments

Safer than 100% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #0 safest of 16 Construction adhesives (except employers in California.

Design Polymerics (20 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Design Polymerics
Design Polymerics (20 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Design Polymerics has fewer employees than the Construction adhesives (except asphalt, median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325520 · CA · Santa Ana

287 Construction adhesives (except asphalt, gypsum base) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 492 employers in Santa Ana, 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 Ringwood 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Henkel US Operations Corporation 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Willow Lake Corp Admin 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR IFS Industries - Warehouse 0.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sills Farms, Inc. 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE F A Maggiore & Sons, LLC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE CALMEX CONTRACTING INC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Velvet Antler Ranch LLC 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Think Together 2,496 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Santa Ana 1,472 FTE
CITY-NEAR Orange County/Los Angeles 1,072 FTE
CITY-NEAR 056937-SANTA ANA CA P&DC 920 FTE
NAT-TCR Carbro Constructors Corp Main 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kinship Pointe Seward 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Chicago Corporate 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Keller Warehouse 0.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ortho Mattress Manufacturing 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Element Iowa City 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midland Paper - Wausau, WI 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE PF Crafton Fitness, LLC 20 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.