Printing plate engraving machinery manufacturing · California

Epson America Inc.

Carson, CA · ~141 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Epson America Inc. runs at 170% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Printing plate engraving machinery manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Epson America Inc.: 5.6 TCR = 170% of Printing plate engraving machinery manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Epson America Inc. safety composite

Epson America Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

−7.6

2021→2022

Epson America Inc. injury rate improved

Epson America Inc.'s TCR fell 7.6 from 9.4 in 2021 to 1.8 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 9.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=9.4 · 2022=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333244 · Carson, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 170% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #6/9
  • PHOTO Burd & Flertcher - I…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~141 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Burd & Flertcher - Independence Factory (0.1 TCR gap)

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Epson America Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Epson America Inc. averages 5.6 TCR (170% of the Printing plate engraving machinery manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Epson America Inc. TCR series: 2021=9.4 · 2022=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Epson America Inc. falls in its industry

82 Printing plate engraving machi establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 9 Printing plate engraving machi employers in California.

Epson America Inc. (141 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0100200300400 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Epson America Inc.
Epson America Inc. (141 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Epson America Inc. has more employees than the Printing plate engraving machinery manuf median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2022 1.8 1.8 3 0 0
2021 9.4 9.4 4 8 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333244 · CA · Carson

82 Printing plate engraving machinery manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 236 employers in Carson, 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 Burd & Flertcher - Independence Factory 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR PamarcoBatavia 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR HEIDELBERG CENTRAL 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Anilox Roll Company, Inc. 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Plug Connection -Vista 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE OCEAN VIEW FLOWERS, LLC 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE LABOR 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE VESSEY & COMPANY, INC. 141 FTE
CITY-NEAR Centric Parts (PEO) - Carson 1,190 FTE
CITY-NEAR Los Angeles Refinery Carson 1,083 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMPAM Parks Mechanical 965 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Carson 755 FTE
NAT-TCR 0387 - Schaumburg Il Whse 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 0667 - Southeast Albuquerque Nm Whse 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Phoenix West 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR OHara Machinery, Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Steel Painters LLC 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZWLG 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZTOP 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZMEM 141 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: 2022, 2021. 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.