Drywall contractors · California

D.H. Smith Company, Inc.

San Jose, CA · ~238 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

D.H. Smith Company, Inc. runs at 302% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Drywall contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

D.H. Smith Company, Inc.: 8.5 TCR = 302% of Drywall contractors BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

D.H. Smith Company, Inc. safety composite

D.H. Smith Company, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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 8.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.7

2019→2024

D.H. Smith Company, Inc. injury rate improved

D.H. Smith Company, Inc.'s TCR fell 3.7 from 9.6 in 2019 to 5.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 11.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=9.6 · 2020=11.7 · 2021=7.3 · 2022=11.6 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=5.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238310 · San Jose, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.5 · 302% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #185/228
  • PHOTO Location 44
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 108 inj
  • SIZE ~238 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Location 44 (0.0 TCR gap)

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D.H. Smith Company, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows D.H. Smith Company, Inc. averages 8.5 TCR (302% of the Drywall contractors BLS benchmark).

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

D.H. Smith Company, Inc. TCR series: 2019=9.6 · 2020=11.7 · 2021=7.3 · 2022=11.6 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=5.9 · BLS 2.8

Where D.H. Smith Company, Inc. falls in its industry

1,613 Drywall contractors establishments

Safer than 14% 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 #185 safest of 228 Drywall contractors employers in California.

D.H. Smith Company, Inc. (238 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate D.H. Smith Company, Inc.
D.H. Smith Company, Inc. (238 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4

D.H. Smith Company, Inc. has more employees than the Drywall contractors 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
2024 5.9 4.1 13 0 0
2023 4.6 1.1 7 1 0
2022 11.6 6.0 27 0 0
2021 7.3 7.3 17 0 0
2020 11.7 8.3 22 2 0
2019 9.6 6.5 22 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238310 · CA · San Jose

1,613 Drywall contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 1,102 employers in San Jose, 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 Location 44 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR RB Paint & Drywall, Inc. 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR H.C.S, LLC 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6814_15746 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Panoche Creek Packing 238 FTE
STATE-SIZE Guerrero Labor Contractor 238 FTE
STATE-SIZE Enphase Energy Fremont, CA 238 FTE
STATE-SIZE Division #9 238 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2636-CALIFORNIA.SAN JOSE 11,308 FTE
CITY-NEAR Santa Clara Valley Healthcare, Valley Medical Center (Hospital & Clinics) 7,299 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rosendin - Main 6,964 FTE
CITY-NEAR Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (SCVMC & Clinics) 6,576 FTE
NAT-TCR 301 Colorado Foods Warehouse 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR City of South Haven - Public Works 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Boyd Metals of Little Rock, Arkansas 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Boutte Tree, Inc. 8.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 51 - Nashville 238 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Brunswick NJ FXFE-SBR 238 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0746 - Kendall 238 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0804 - Mason City 238 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. 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.