Buffing metals and metal products for the trade · California

Ec Plating, Inc.

Santa Clara, CA · ~21 workers · 7 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

Ec Plating, Inc. runs at 185% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Buffing metals and metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade D.

Ec Plating, Inc.: 6.1 TCR = 185% of Buffing metals and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ec Plating, Inc. safety composite

Ec Plating, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Ec Plating, Inc.: 0.0 → 5.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 12.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Ec Plating, Inc.'s TCR rose 5.6 from 0.0 in 2018 to 5.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 12.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332813 · Santa Clara, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 185% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #56/74
  • PHOTO Har-Conn Aerospace
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Har-Conn Aerospace (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ec Plating, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ec Plating, Inc. averages 6.1 TCR (185% of the Buffing metals and metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Ec Plating, Inc. TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=6.7 · 2020=12.3 · 2021=9.3 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=5.5 · 2024=5.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Ec Plating, Inc. falls in its industry

585 Buffing metals and metal produ establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #56 safest of 74 Buffing metals and metal produ employers in California.

Ec Plating, Inc. (21 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ec Plating, Inc.
Ec Plating, Inc. (21 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Ec Plating, Inc. has fewer employees than the Buffing metals and metal products for th median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 5.6 0.0 1 0 0
2023 5.5 5.5 1 0 0
2022 3.4 3.4 1 0 0
2021 9.3 9.3 2 0 0
2020 12.3 12.3 2 0 0
2019 6.7 6.7 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332813 · CA · Santa Clara

585 Buffing metals and metal products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 332 employers in Santa Clara, 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 Har-Conn Aerospace 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arcadia Inc. - AAC 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Franke Plating Works 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Indianhead Plating Inc. 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Poso Ridge,LLC 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fonseca & Fonseca, Inc. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE TELESIS ONION CO., INC. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mayflower Farms Inc 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mission Campus 6,222 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pure Storage 5,595 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2032-02120751 3,887 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0206-02620751 3,154 FTE
NAT-TCR Mid-Valley Hospital 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR IAD-M 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR The Retreat at Sunriver 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Finney County PBX 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pearl Store 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Attleboro 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nu Arra, Inc. 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stepworks of Elizabethtown, Crowne Pointe 21 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, 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.