Shampoos and conditioners, hair, manufacturing · California

Dr. Bronner's Vista Plant

Vista, CA · ~248 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dr. Bronner's Vista Plant runs at 184% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Shampoos and conditioners, hair, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Dr. Bronner's Vista Plant: 6.1 TCR = 184% of Shampoos and conditioners, hair, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dr. Bronner's Vista Plant safety composite

Dr. Bronner's Vista Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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%).

Dr. Bronner's Vista Plant held a steady TCR band

Dr. Bronner's Vista Plant's TCR held near 0.2 from 6.4 in 2016 to 6.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.4 · 2017=2.6 · 2018=5.4 · 2019=6.0 · 2021=8.1 · 2022=5.9 · 2023=7.8 · 2024=6.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325620 · Vista, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 184% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #31/38
  • PHOTO Bright International…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 116 inj
  • SIZE ~248 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bright International, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dr. Bronner's Vista Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dr. Bronner's Vista Plant averages 6.1 TCR (184% of the Shampoos and conditioners, hair, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Dr. Bronner's Vista Plant TCR series: 2016=6.4 · 2017=2.6 · 2018=5.4 · 2019=6 · 2021=8.1 · 2022=5.9 · 2023=7.8 · 2024=6.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Dr. Bronner's Vista Plant falls in its industry

260 Shampoos and conditioners, hai establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 38 Shampoos and conditioners, hai employers in California.

Dr. Bronner's Vista Plant (248 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 161 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Dr. Bronner's Vista Plant
Dr. Bronner's Vista Plant (248 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 161 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Dr. Bronner's Vista Plant has more employees than the Shampoos and conditioners, hair, manufac median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 6.2 3.3 19 0 0
2023 7.8 6.4 22 0 0
2022 5.9 5.2 15 1 0
2021 8.1 6.9 21 0 0
2019 6.0 5.1 13 0 0
2018 5.4 5.4 11 0 0
2017 2.6 2.6 5 0 0
2016 6.4 5.1 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325620 · CA · Vista

260 Shampoos and conditioners, hair, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 197 employers in Vista, 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 Bright International, LLC 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Colorado Quality Proudcts LLC 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spatz Laboratories 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lina Gale Inc. 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Saticoy Berry Farms, Inc. 248 FTE
STATE-SIZE west coast custom harvesting i 248 FTE
STATE-SIZE RC PACKING 248 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spates Fabricators Inc 248 FTE
CITY-NEAR 05-CACTUS 1,065 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cactus - 05 949 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vista HQ 758 FTE
CITY-NEAR 01-CORP 522 FTE
NAT-TCR CIDRA 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR The Fresh Market 138 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Iowa Regional Utilities Association 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Crafted Plastics, Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Seasons-4, Inc. 248 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plastipak- Westland 248 FTE
NAT-SIZE CMC Steel Arizona 248 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ravenna Casting Center, LLC 248 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.