Warfare countermeasures equipment manufacturing · California

Design West Technologies inc.

Tustin, CA · ~81 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Design West Technologies inc. runs at 217% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Warfare countermeasures equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Design West Technologies inc.: 7.2 TCR = 217% of Warfare countermeasures equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Design West Technologies inc. safety composite

Design West Technologies inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.7

2018→2023

Design West Technologies inc. injury rate improved

Design West Technologies inc.'s TCR fell 1.7 from 4.8 in 2018 to 3.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 15.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=4.8 · 2021=5.1 · 2022=15.8 · 2023=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 334511 · Tustin, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.2 · 217% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #45/45
  • PHOTO Sonatech LLC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~81 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sonatech LLC (0.2 TCR gap)

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Design West Technologies inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Design West Technologies inc. averages 7.2 TCR (217% of the Warfare countermeasures equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Design West Technologies inc. TCR series: 2018=4.8 · 2021=5.1 · 2022=15.8 · 2023=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Design West Technologies inc. falls in its industry

388 Warfare countermeasures equipm establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #45 safest of 45 Warfare countermeasures equipm employers in California.

Design West Technologies inc. (81 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 207 employees and a TCR of 0.7 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Design West Technologies inc.
Design West Technologies inc. (81 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 207 employees and a TCR of 0.7

Design West Technologies inc. has fewer employees than the Warfare countermeasures equipment manufa median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.7. 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 3.1 3.1 3 0 0
2022 15.8 10.5 6 0 0
2021 5.1 2.5 4 0 0
2018 4.8 4.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

334511 · CA · Tustin

388 Warfare countermeasures equipment manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 94 employers in Tustin, 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 Sonatech LLC 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR DPI LABS, INC 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Naiad Dynamics US, Inc. 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Texas prod Corp 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Allied Potato Inc. 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE STS Ranch LLC 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE C. R CRAIN AND SONS, INC 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Miramar 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR TUSTCA70 1,036 FTE
CITY-NEAR TUSTCA70 - Pacific Bell Telephone Company 840 FTE
CITY-NEAR 738 YOUNG S MARKET-TUSTIN 765 FTE
CITY-NEAR Headquarters, CA 691 FTE
NAT-TCR Arizona Shower Door of IL 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 4223-M1900 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Miracle Hill Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Kenosha Place 2 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE County Market #139 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elite Carriers LLC 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arvada Care and Rehabilitation Center 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE KW International, Inc. (1130-Bensenville-IL) 81 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, 2021, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.