Welding gases merchant wholesalers · California

Encore Gas & Supply Long Beach

Long Beach, CA · ~40 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Encore Gas & Supply Long Beach runs at 59% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Welding gases merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Encore Gas & Supply Long Beach: 1.3 TCR = 59% of Welding gases merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Encore Gas & Supply Long Beach safety composite

Encore Gas & Supply Long Beach scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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

−2.6

2023→2024

Encore Gas & Supply Long Beach injury rate improved

Encore Gas & Supply Long Beach's TCR fell 2.6 from 2.6 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.6 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Long Beach, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.3 · 59% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #25/71
  • PHOTO Greenfield Global US…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Greenfield Global USA Inc. 58 Vale Rd (0.0 TCR gap)

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Encore Gas & Supply Long Beach in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Encore Gas & Supply Long Beach averages 1.3 TCR (59% of the Welding gases merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Encore Gas & Supply Long Beach TCR series: 2023=2.6 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Encore Gas & Supply Long Beach falls in its industry

766 Welding gases merchant wholesa establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 71 Welding gases merchant wholesa employers in California.

Encore Gas & Supply Long Beach (40 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Encore Gas & Supply Long Beach
Encore Gas & Supply Long Beach (40 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Encore Gas & Supply Long Beach has more employees than the Welding gases merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 2.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · CA · Long Beach

766 Welding gases merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 614 employers in Long Beach, 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 Greenfield Global USA Inc. 58 Vale Rd 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Earlbeck Gases & Technologies Baltimore 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greensboro Jamestown 0964 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Islandia 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Stackhouse Brothers 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE PISTACHIO HARVESTING, INC. 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Watsonville/San Juan Bautista 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gomez Growers 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorialcare Long Beach Medical Center 3,755 FTE
CITY-NEAR LBM00 LONG BEACH MEMORIAL MED CENTER 3,552 FTE
CITY-NEAR Total Terminals International, LLC. 2,683 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 300 2,621 FTE
NAT-TCR Weaver Consultants Group, LLC 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Owens Corning 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Halethorpe 10167 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Fairless Plant 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Covington 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cargill Animal Nutrition 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE RECON Corporation, Inc. 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cashwa Distributing / Aberdeen 40 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.