Aluminum die-castings, unfinished, manufacturing · California

Dynacast

Lake Forest, CA · ~161 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dynacast runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Aluminum die-castings, unfinished, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Dynacast: 6.3 TCR = 192% of Aluminum die-castings, unfinished, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dynacast safety composite

Dynacast scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Dynacast: 4.5 → 5.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.61× in 2024

Dynacast's TCR rose 0.9 from 4.5 in 2018 to 5.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331523 · Lake Forest, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 192% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #7/11
  • PHOTO RCM Industries Company
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~161 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RCM Industries Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dynacast in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dynacast averages 6.3 TCR (192% of the Aluminum die-castings, unfinished, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Dynacast TCR series: 2018=4.5 · 2023=9.2 · 2024=5.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Dynacast falls in its industry

221 Aluminum die-castings, unfinis establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 11 Aluminum die-castings, unfinis employers in California.

Dynacast (161 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Dynacast
Dynacast (161 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Dynacast has more employees than the Aluminum die-castings, unfinished, manuf median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2024 5.4 3.9 4 3 0
2023 9.2 4.6 5 7 0
2018 4.5 1.7 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331523 · CA · Lake Forest

221 Aluminum die-castings, unfinished, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 90 employers in Lake Forest, 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 RCM Industries Company 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR AAM - Twinsburg (i.e. Metaldyne - Twinsburg) 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR DyCast Specialties Corp 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Plant 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE La Valle Sabbia, Inc. 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE El Espinal FLC 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henry Avocado Corporation 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE CA-SONGS Station 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Panasonic Avionics Corporation 2,047 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARB, Inc. 1,334 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spectrum Brands, Lake Forest 598 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASSA ABLOY Americas Residential, Inc., Lake Forest 594 FTE
NAT-TCR Gaatl - Atlanta Hub 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ndgra - Grand Forks 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Estancia Del Norte 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Murphy Electric & Industrial Control, LLC. 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Houston and surrounding areas 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tennoca Construction Company 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE T&D Metal Products 161 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, 2018. 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.